by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
The sunrise wakes the lark to sing
Language: English
The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale. Come darkness, moonrise, every thing That is so silent, sweet, and pale: Come, so ye wake the nightingale. Make haste to mount, thou wistful moon, Make haste to wake the nightingale: Let silence set the world in tune To hearken to that wordless tale Which warbles from the nightingale O herald skylark, stay thy flight One moment, for a nightingale Floods us with sorrow and delight. To-morrow thou shalt hoist the sail; Leave us to-night the nightingale.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Bird Raptures", appears in Goblin Market and other Poems, first published 1875 [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 Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir (1852 - 1935), "Bird Raptures", published c1895. [voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by George Frederic Huntley (b. 1859), "Bird Raptures", published 1898. [duet for soprano and alto with piano] [text not verified]
- by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870 - 1946), "The sunrise wakes the lark to sing", published 1906. [voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Arthur Battelle Whiting (1861 - 1936), "The sunrise wakes the lark to sing", published 1904 [soprano and piano], from Three Songs [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-28
Line count: 15
Word count: 89