Beauty

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain;
I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils,
Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

I have heard the song of the blossoms and the old chant of the sea,
And seen strange lands from under the arched white sails of ships;
But the loveliest things of beauty God ever has shown to me
Are her voice, and her hair, and her eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips.

by John Masefield (1878-1967) , "Beauty", from Ballads and Poems, published 1910

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Edgar Barratt (1877-) , "Beauty", published 1928. [voice and piano]
by Ewart Andrew Bartley (1909-) , "Beauty", 1949.
by Cecil Cope , "Beauty", published 1966. [TTBB a cappella]
by Malcolm Gordon Davidson (1891-1949) , "Beauty", published 1921. [voice and piano or strings]
by Norman Gilbert (1912-) , "Beauty", published 1951. [SSA (a cappella?)]
by Richard Hageman (1882-1966) , "Beauty", published <<1940.
by Arthur Walter Kramer (1890-1969) , "I have seen dawn", op. 48 no. 1 (1922). [voice and piano]
by Samuel R. Lewis , "Beauty", published <<1940.
by Hermann Frederic Löhr (1872-1943) , "Beauty", published 1922. [voice and piano]
by Easthope Martin (-1925) , "Beauty", published 1919 [medium voice and piano], from Five Poems by John Masefield, no. ?
by Beatrice Posaminick , "Beauty", published <<1940.
by Elinor Remick Warren (1900-1991) , "I have seen dawn", published <<1940.

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