When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovely things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies. When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dreams burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place. When music sounds, all that I was I am Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came; And from Time's woods break into distant song The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.
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Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Music", appears in The Sunken Garden and Other Poems, first published 1917 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Music", 2006 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Bartlett (b. 1949), "Music", 1987 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Patricia Cartwright , "When music sounds", published 1958 [ SA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by T. Hopkins Evans , "When music sounds", published 1936 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerald Gover (1914 - 1982), "When music sounds", published 1952 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "When music sounds", from Four songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dom Gregory Murray , "Music", published 1938 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Norman Houston O'Neill (1875 - 1934), "When music sounds" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Music", op. 15 (1943) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gardner Read (1913 - 2005), "Music", 1947 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin M. Smith (b. 1938), "Music", published 1951 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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