by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Soft snow
Language: English
I walked abroad in a snowy day I askd the soft snow with me to play She playd & she melted in all her prime And the winter calld it a dreadful crime.
Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), "Soft snow", written 1793, appears in Notebook, in Gnomic Verses, no. 9 [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 Christopher Roland Brown (b. 1943), "Soft snow", op. 32 no. ? (1971) [ SSATBB vocal sextet and instrumental ensemble (oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, violoncello, and piano) ], from The Snows of Winter [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Soft snow", published c1949, 1953 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Two Songs for Soprano (or Tenor) and Piano, no. 1, NY : Associated Music Publishers [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Wilding-White (1922 - 2001), "Soft snow ", published c1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Four William Blake Songs, no. 3, NY : Highgate Press (Galaxy) [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-05
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Word count: 33