Love let the wind cry

Love let the wind cry 
On the dark mountain,
Bending the ash trees
And the tall hemlocks
With the great voice of 
Thunderous legions,
How I adore thee.

Let the hoarse torrent
In the blue canyon,
Murmuring mightily 
Out of the gray mist
Of primal chaos
Cease not proclaiming
How I adore thee.

Let the long rhythm
Of crunching rollers,
Breaking and bursting
On the white seaboard
Titan and tireless, 
Tell, while the world stands,
How I adore thee.

Love, let the clear call
Of the tree cricket,
Frailest of creatures,
Green as the young grass,
Mark with his trilling
Resonant bell-note,
How I adore thee.

Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow,
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To listening mortals,
How I adore thee.

But, more than all sounds,
Surer, serener,
Fuller [with]1 passion
And exultation, 
Let the hushed whisper
In thine own heart say,
How I adore thee.

by Bliss Carman (1861-1929) , no title, from Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, no. 31 [an adaptation]

a text in English by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846-1895) [text unavailable]

a text in Greek by Sappho (fl. c610-c580 BCE) , no title [text unavailable]

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

by Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989) , "Love let the wind cry", stanzas 1-4,6.

by Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) , "How I adore thee", op. 7 (1936). [medium voice and piano]

by Hermann Reutter (1900-1985) , "Wie hernieder vom Berge Sturmwind stürzt", op. 57 no. 1, from Fünf antike Oden nach Gedichten von Sappho, no. 1.

Date added to the website: 2003-11-21.

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