Joy, shipmate, joy! | Joy, shipmate, joy!

by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Joy, shipmate, joy!

Language: English

Our translations: CAT FRE

Joy, shipmate, joy!
(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore,
Joy, shipmate, joy.

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Text Authorship:

by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Joy, shipmate, joy", appears in Leaves of Grass [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Joy, shipmate, joy!", c1930, published 1930 [ voice and piano ], from Songs at Parting: A Selection of Walt Whitman's Poems, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), no title, published 1931 [ SSAATTBB chorus, piano or orchestra ], from Songs of Farewell, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Dwight Gustafson , "Joy, shipmate, joy!", published 1967 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Three Songs of Parting [sung text not yet checked]
by Beatrice May Hall , "Joy, shipmate, joy!" [sung text not yet checked]
by Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011), "Joy, shipmate, joy!", from I was there, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Silvan Loher (b. 1986), "Joy, Shipmate, Joy", op. 6 no. 7 [ voice and piano ], from Ten Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Paul Paviour (b. 1931), "Joy, shipmate, joy!", published 1975 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Three Part Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "Voyage", op. 103 no. 9, published 1967 [ chorus and woodwinds ], from Celebrations: Cantata no. 3, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
by Leroy Robertson (1896 - 1971), "Joy, shipmate, joy!", published 1942 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Joy, shipmate, joy!", published 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from In Memoriam, no. 4, New York, G. Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Joy, shipmate, joy", op. 97 no. 6 (1906), published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs of Faith, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Joy, shipmate, joy", 1925?, published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Three Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Thomas Carl Whitmer (1873 - 1959), no title, published 1928 [ vocal quartet, chorus, and piano or orchestra ], from Choral Rhapsody [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 41