by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
Winter is white on turf and tree
Language: English
Winter is white on turf and tree, And birds are fled; But summer songsters pipe to me, And petals spread, For what I dreamt of secretly His lips have said! O 'tis a fine May morn, they say, And blooms have blown; But wild and wintry is my day, My birds make moan; For he who vowed leaves me to pay Alone -- alone!
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Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "The seasons of her year", appears in Poems of the Past and Present, first published 1902 [author's text not yet checked 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 Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960), "Alone", 1944 [ voice, violin, and piano ], from Five Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl J. Kittleson (b. 1920), "The seasons of her year" [ satb chorus a cappella ], from Three Poems of Thomas Hardy [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-17
Line count: 12
Word count: 63