Daffodils (Tabley, set by W. Alwyn) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 I question with the amber daffodils,
 Sheeting the floors of April, how she fares;
 Where king-cup buds gleam out between the rills,
 And celandine in wide gold beadlets glares.
 By pastured brows and swelling hedge-row bowers,
 From crumpled leaves the primrose bunches slip,
 My hot face rolled in their faint-scented flowers,
 I dream her rich cheek rests against my lip.
 All weird sensations of the fervent prime
 Are like great harmonies, whose touch can move
 The glow of gracious impulse; thought and time
 Renew my love with life, my life with love.
 When this old world new-born puts glories on,
 I cannot think she never will be won.

Authorship

Warren John Byrne Leicester, Baron de Tabley (1835-1895)

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William Alwyn (1905-1985)

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