On the beach at Fontana (Joyce, set by R. Sessions, L. Betts, B. Hopkins, J. Jarrett, G. Keulen) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Wind whines and whines the shingle,
The crazy pierstakes groan;
A senile sea numbers each single
Slimesilvered stone.

From whining wind and colder
Grey sea I wrap him warm
And touch his trembling fineboned shoulder
And boyish arm.

Around us fear, descending
Darkness of fear above
And in my heart how deep unending
Ache of love!

First published in Poetry, November 1917.

Input by Barbara Miller

Authorship

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Pomes Penyeach

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

Lorne M. Betts (1918-)

Five Songs (1952)

Bill Hopkins (1943-)

Two Poems

Jack Maurice Jarrett (1934-)

The Unquiet Heart

Geert van Keulen (1943-)

Trieste

Roger Sessions (1896-1985)

The Joyce Book

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

FRE

French

Date added to the website: 2005-01-13.

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