by Edward Shanks (1892 - 1953)
The fields are full of summer still
Language: English
The fields are full of summer still And breathe again upon the air From brown dry side of hedge and hill More sweetness than the sense can bear. So some old couple, who in youth With love were filled and over-full, And loved with strength and loved with truth, In heavy age are beautiful.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Shanks (1892 - 1953), "The fields are full", appears in The Queen of China and Other Poems, first published 1919 [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 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "The fields are full", 1920, published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs with Piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "The fields are full", 1920, published 1928 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Late Summer", op. 227 (1949) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Late summer", 1921, published 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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