Fragment: "When soft winds and sunny...

When soft winds and sunny skies
With the green earth harmonize,
And the young and dewy dawn,
Bold as an unhunted fawn,
Up the windless heaven is gone, --
Laugh--for ambushed in the day, --
Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) , "Fragment: "When soft winds and sunny skies"", published 1839

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

by Creighton Allen (1900-1969) , "Evening", published 1954, from Shelley Songs, Cycle of Ten Songs, no. 9.
by George Antheil (1900-1959) , "When soft winds", published 1951 [SATB and keyboard], from Eight Fragments from Shelley, no. 1.

Date added to the website: 2005-01-24.

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