by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
The nightingale has a lyre of gold
Language: English
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all of the joy of life, And we in the [mad]1, spring weather, We two have listened till he [sang]2 Our hearts and lips together.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Parker: "glad"
2 Parker: "sung"
Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in A Book of Verses, first published 1888 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912), "The Nightingale has a lyre of gold", <<1912, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Spring contrasts, no. 2, London: R. Cocks & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "The blackbird", op. 11 (Three Songs) no. 3 (<<1914) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by H. L. Brainard , "The blackbird", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "The nightingale has a lyre of gold", 1910, published 1915 [ soprano or tenor, piano ], from Fünf Gesänge, no. 2, Köln am Rhein, Tischer und Jagenberg, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Hopkins Densmore (1880 - 1943), "The nightingale", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Bruce Faith (b. 1926), "The blackbird" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "The Nightingale has a Lyre of Gold", op. 43 (Six songs) no. 1, published 1899, copyright © 1899 [ high voice and piano ], Boston, Schmidt [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Victor Harris (1869 - 1943), "The blackbird", published 1895 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "The blackbird", op. 11 (Seven songs) no. 2 (1912), published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Agnes Lambert (d. 1929), "The nightingale has a lyre of gold", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865 - 1930), as Scollard, "The blackbird", published 1925, in Folk Songs and Art Songs for Intermediate Grades [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl K. McKinley (1895 - 1966), "The nightingale has a lyre of gold", 1927 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Horatio William Parker (1863 - 1919), "The blackbird", op. 59 (Four Songs), published 1904 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Song of the blackbird", op. 14 (Four Songs) no. 4, published 1910 [ voice and piano ], London, Boosey [sung text not yet checked]
- by Milton A. Rogers , "The nightingale has a lyre of gold", published <<1940, from Five Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Landon Ronald, Sir (1873 - 1938), "The nightingale has a lyre of gold", published 1908, from Echoes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Lincoln Whelply (1864 - 1946), "The nightingale has a lyre of gold", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Jelka Rosen (Delius) (1868 - 1935) ; composed by Frederick Delius.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 60