Bright Clouds (Thomas, set by I. Gurney) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Bright clouds of May
 Shade half the pond.
 Beyond,
 All but one bay
 Of emerald
 Tall reeds
 Like crisscross bayonets
 Where a bird once called,
 Lies bright as the sun.
 No one heeds.
 The light wind frets
 And drifts the scum
 Of may-blossom.
 Till the moorhen calls
 Again.
 Naught's to be done
 By birds or men.
 Still the may falls.

Input by David Kenneth Smith

Authorship

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

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

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

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