December (Rossetti, set by C. Ives) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Last, for December, houses on the plain,
 Ground floors to live in, logs heap'd mountain high,
 carpets stretch'd and newest games to try,
 Torches lit, and gifts from man to man,
 Your host a drunkard and a Catalan;
 And whole dead pigs, and cunning cooks to ply
 Each throat with titbits that satisfy!
 And winebutts of St. Galganu's brave span.
 And be your coats well lined and tightly bound,
 And wrap yourselves in cloaks of strength and weight,
 With gallant hoods to put your faces through.
 And make your game of abject vagabond, 
 Abandon'd miserable reprobate misers;
 Don't let them have a chance with you!

Authorship

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

The Early Italian Poets

Based on

text

Folgore da San Geminiano (fl. 1309-1317)

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

Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954)

114 Songs

Date added to the website: 2003-11-07.

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