by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
The sigh that heaves the grasses
Language: English
The sigh that heaves the grasses Whence thou wilt never rise Is of the air that passes And knows not if it sighs. The diamond tears adorning Thy low mound on the lea, Those are the tears of morning, That weeps, but not for thee.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Last Poems, no. 27, first published 1922 [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 Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "The sigh that heaves the grasses", 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Douglas MacDonald Stewart (1892 - ?), "The sigh that heaves the grasses", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "The sigh that heaves the grasses", 1927, published 1954, rev. 1954 [ voice and violin ], from Along the Field, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "The sigh that heaves the grasses " [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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