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When soft winds and sunny skies With the green earth harmonize, And the young and dewy dawn, Bold as an unhunted fawn, Up the windless heaven is gone, -- Laugh--for ambushed in the day, -- Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.
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Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "Fragment: "When soft winds and sunny skies"", first published 1839 [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 Creighton Allen (1900 - 1969), "Evening", published 1954, from Shelley Songs, Cycle of Ten Songs, no. 9. [text not verified]
- by George Antheil (1900 - 1959), "When soft winds", published 1951 [SATB chorus and piano], from Eight Fragments from Shelley, no. 1. [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Quando venti leggeri e cieli luminosi", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2005-01-24
Line count: 7
Word count: 39
Quando venti leggeri e cieli luminosi fanno dolce contorno alla verde terra, e la giovane alba fresca di rugiada, audace come il cerbiatto quando non è cacciato, si è ormai levata nel cielo senza vento, -- Sii lieto -- perché in agguato dentro il giorno, -- nuvole e turbini attendono la preda.
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- Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2013 by Ferdinando Albeggiani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "Fragment: "When soft winds and sunny skies"", first published 1839
This text was added to the website: 2013-03-28
Line count: 7
Word count: 49