by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Language: English
night by silent sailing night, Isobel, wildwoods eyes and primarose hair, quietly, all the woods so wild in mauves of moss and daphne dews how all so still she lay 'neath of the white thorn, child of tree like some lost happy leaf like blowing flower stilled as fain would she anon for soon again 'twill be, win me, woo me, wed me, ah! weary me deeply, now even calm lay sleeping night, Isobel, Sister Isobel, Saintette Isobel, Madame Isa Veuve La Belle.
Text Authorship:
- by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), appears in Finnegan's Wake [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 John Milton Cage (1912 - 1992), "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs", 1942 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
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