Lo! in the orient when the gracious...

Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract, and look another way:
So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon
Unlooked on diest unless thou get a son.

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , from Sonnets, no. 7

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

by Malcolm Peyton , "Lo, in the Orient", 1959, published 1982, first performed 1960. [mezzosoprano, two clarinets, violin, viola, violoncello]
by Richard Simpson (-1876) , "Sonnet VII", 1864.
by David Winkler , "Sonnet VII", 1982 [SATB quartet and piano], from Cycle for Several Voices and Piano, no. 7.

by Pauls Dambis , no title, 1976, first performed 1977 [mezzosoprano, flute, percussion, violoncello, and piano], from Šekspīra mūzika, no. ?

by Vera Vladimirovna Krasnogliadova (1902-1970) , "Sonet 7", published 1955 [high or medium voice], from 3 Soneta V. Shekspira, no. ?

FRE French (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot)
ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

Date added to the website: 2007-10-07.

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