Rain has fallen all the day

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

Rain has fallen all the day

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE GER SPA

Rain has fallen all the day.
O come among the laden trees:
The leaves lie thick upon the way
Of mem'ries.

Staying a little by the way
Of mem'ries shall we depart.
Come, my beloved, where I may
Speak to your heart.

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Authorship:

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), appears in Chamber Music, no. 32, first published 1907 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Rain has fallen", 1991, published 1996 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ], from Chamber Music, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Rain has fallen", op. 10 (Three Songs) no. 1, published 1939 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Lorne M. Betts (b. 1918), "Rain has fallen all the day", 1949 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Songs to Poems of James Joyce [sung text not yet checked]
by Brian Boydell (1917 - 2000), "Rain has fallen all the day", 1946 [ baritone and piano ], from Five Joyce Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Coulthard (1908 - 2000), "Rain has fallen all the day", 1946 [ medium voice and piano ], from Three Songs for Medium Voice and Piano, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ross Lee Finney (1906 - 1997), "Rain has fallen all the day ", 1952, published 1985, first performed 1975 [ voice and piano ], from Chamber Music, no. 32, Henmar Press [sung text not yet checked]
by Jack Marius Jarrett (b. 1934), "Rain has fallen all the day", 1962 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Songs about the end of love [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "Rain has fallen all the day", <<1953 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Kauder (1888 - 1972), "Rain has fallen all the day", published 1955 [ soprano, alto, tenor, and string quartet ], from Ten Poems [sung text not yet checked]
by (Kurt) Rudolf Mengelberg (1892 - 1959), "Rain has fallen all the day", from Chamber music, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "Rain has fallen", R. 51 no. 6 (1929), published 1930 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], from Seven Poems by James Joyce, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Amadeus Pisk (1893 - 1990), "Rain has fallen all the day", op. 101 no. ? [ tenor and piano ], from Songs from "Chamber Music" by James Joyce [sung text not yet checked]
by Howard L. Richards (b. 1927), "Rain", published 1960 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Barry Seaman (b. 1946), "Rain has fallen all the day", 1981 [ voice and piano ], from Chamber Music Book I, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by William Russell Smith (b. 1927), "Rain has fallen all the day", published 1948 [ SSA chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Williametta Spencer (b. 1932), "Rain has fallen all the day", published 1970 [ madrigal: satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Karol Maciej Szymanowski (1882 - 1937), "Rain has fallen", op. 54 no. 7, published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Pieśni do słów Jamesa Joyce'a, no. 7, also set in Polish (Polski) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Eugene Ward (1917 - 2013), "Rain has fallen all the day", 1940, published 1951 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (1894 - 1980) ; composed by Karol Maciej Szymanowski.

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Word count: 42