A dirge

Rough wind that moanest loud,
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind when sullen cloud
Knells all [the]1 night long;
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods whose branches stain,
Deep caves and dreary main,
Wail! for the world's wrong.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) , "A dirge", published 1824

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

by Roy Ewing Agnew (1893-1944) , "Dirge: Rough wind", published 1924.
by Creighton Allen (1900-1969) , "A dirge", published 1936, rev. 1954, from Shelley Songs, Cycle of Ten Songs, no. 7.
by George Antheil (1900-1959) , "Dirge", published 1951 [SATB and keyboard], from Eight Fragments from Shelley, no. 4.
by Arthur C. Berdahl , "Dirge", c1936, first performed 1936. [SSA and kettledrum or string bass]
by Ernest Blake , "A dirge", published 1908 [voice, piano], from Ten Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley for voice and piano
by Frank Bridge (1879-1941) , "A dirge"
by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) , "Rough wind", 1902.

by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) , "Canto funebre", P. 108 no. 2, published 1917, from Cinque liriche, no. 2.

by Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892-1965) , "Vento rude", 1934, from Tre Canti di Shelley, no. 2.

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