John Eaton: Songs for Ursula (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears:
    [Yet slower, yet; O faintly,]¹ gentle springs:
 List to the heavy part the music bears,
    Woe weeps out her [division]² when she sings.
     Droop herbs and flowers,
     Fall grief in showers,
     Our [beauties are]³ not ours;
      [O, I could still,]⁴
 Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
     [Drop, drop, drop, drop,]⁵
    Since [nature's]⁶ pride is, now, a withered daffodil.

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¹ Horsley: "O slower yet, O fainter"
² Horsley: "division"
³ Horsley: "beauty is"
⁴ Quilter: "Or I could still"; Horsley: "O could I still"
⁵ Horsley: "Fall down, fall down."
⁶ Horsley: "summer's"

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2. Under Ben Bulben V

Language: English

Authorship

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Under Ben Bulben


Irish poets learn your trade
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3. Song

Language: English

Authorship

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

The New Keepsake

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Beloved, may your sleep be sound
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4. Lines written upon Westminster Bridge

Language: English

Authorship

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems

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Earth has not anything to show more fair:
  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
  A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
  Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
  Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
  In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
  The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
  And all that mighty heart is lying still!