A song of victory (Shelley, set by R. Vaughan Williams) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
   To defy power which seems omnipotent;
To love and bear; to hope till hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
   Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

Input by Ahmed E. Ismail

Authorship

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Prometheus Unbound

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

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Six choral songs to be sung in time of war

Date added to the website: 2005-12-31.

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