A widow bird sat mourning for her love

A widow bird sat mourning for her love
Upon a wintry bough,
The frozen wind crept on above;
The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No [flow'r]1 upon the ground
And little motion in the air,
Except the mill-wheel's sound.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) , from Charles the First.

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

by Creighton Allen (1900-1969) , "Winter song", published 1954, from Shelley Songs, Cycle of Ten Songs, no. 2.
by George Benjamin Arnold , "A widow bird" [duet for two sopranos]
by John Harold Ashe (1938-) , "A widow bird", published 1947.
by Frederick Cook Atkinson (1841-1897) , "A widow bird", published 1876, from Six Songs, no. 3
by Judith Margaret Bailey , "A widow bird", 1969 [baritone, piano], from Three Settings of Poems by Shelley
by Henry Charles Banister (1831-1897) , "A widow bird", op. 20 no. 2, published 1870, from Two Winter Songs, no. 2.
by Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946) , "A widow bird", published 1932, from Five Songs of Shelley, no. 3
by Carol Barratt , "Song", published 1997, from Six "Songs" for Singing, no. 1.
by Arthur Henry Behrend (1853-1935) , "A widow bird", published 1908 [unison song with piano accompaniment], from Through the Year. A Cantata for Ladies' Voices, no. 8
by Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-) , "The widow bird", published 1966 [voice or unison voices and piano], from The Aviary, no. 4.
by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975) , "A widow bird", published 1968, from Three Songs for Girls' or Boys' Voices: nursery rhymes by Percy Bysshe Shelley and anonymous, no. 2.
by H. L. Brainard , "A widow bird", published 1906.
by A. (Alfred or Arthur?) Herbert Brewer (1865-1928) , "A widow bird sat", published 1924.
by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) , "A widow bird", <<1932 [voice and piano], unpublished
by Herbert Norman Howells (1892-1983) , "The widow bird", op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 3 (1915).
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , "A widow bird sat mourning"
by Bertram Luard-Selby (1853-1918) , "A widow bird sat mourning"
by Bryceson Treharne (1879-1948) , "A widow bird"

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