O'Sullivan Rua to the Curlew
Language:
English
O, curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
[Passion dimm'd]1 eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind.
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1 Yeats: "Passion-dimmed"
Input by David K. Smythe
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Lawrence Gilman (1878-1939)
, "The curlew", published 1904 [reciter and piano], from Three Songs
by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990)
, "He reproves the curlew", <<1932 [voice and piano], unpublished
by Richard Roderick-Jones (1947-)
, "He reproves the curlew", 1966 [soprano and piano], from The Wind Among the Reeds
by John Tavener (1944-)
, "The curlew", 1984 [soprano and piano], from Song Cycle for Gina, no. 3.
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym]
, "He reproves the curlew", published 1924 [tenor solo, flute, English horn and string quartet], from The Curlew, no. 1.
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