Tutto è sciolto | A birdless heaven, sea dusk, one lone star

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

A birdless heaven, sea dusk, one lone...

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

A birdless heaven, sea dusk, one lone star
Piercing the west,
As thou, fond heart, love's time, so faint, so far,
Rememberest.

The clear young eyes' soft look, the candid brow,
The fragrant hair,
Falling as through the silence falleth now
Dusk of the air.

Why then, remembering those shy
Sweet lures, repine
When the dear love she yielded with a sigh
Was all but thine?

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First published in Poetry, May 1917

Text Authorship:

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), "Tutto è sciolto", appears in Pomes Penyeach, no. 5 [author's text not yet checked 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 Stanley Richard Bate (1913 - 1959), "Tutto è sciolto", published 1951 [ low voice and piano ], from Five Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Lorne M. Betts (b. 1918), "A birdless heaven, seadusk, one lone star", 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Five Songs (1952) [sung text not yet checked]
by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Tutto è sciolto", c1931, published 1933 [ voice and piano ], from The Joyce Book, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jack Marius Jarrett (b. 1934), "Tutto è sciolto", 1964 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from The Unquiet Heart [sung text not yet checked]
by Donald James Martino (1931 - 2005), "Tutto è sciolto", published 1970 [ soprano, bass, or tenor, and piano ], from Three songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Tutto è sciolto", op. 251 (1950) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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