Song

All suddenly the wind comes soft,
  And Spring is here again;
And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green
  And my heart with buds of pain.

My heart all Winter lay so numb,
  The earth so dead and frore,
That I never thought the Spring would come,
  Or my heart wake any more.

But Winter's broken and earth has woken
  And the small birds cry again.
And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,
  And my heart puts forth its pain.

by Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) , "Song"

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

by Dwight Anderson , "The hawthorn hedge", published <<1940.
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "All suddenly the wind comes soft" [voice and piano], from Five Songs, no. ?
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "Heart's pain", 1920. [voice and piano]
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "Spring sorrow", published 1918. [voice and piano]
by Rex Le Lacheur , "All suddenly the wind comes soft", published 1941. [voice and piano]
by George Norman Peterkin (1886-?) , "All suddenly the wind comes soft", published <<1940. [medium voice and piano]
by S. J. Rowton , "Spring song", published <<1940.
by Freda Swain (1902-) , "Spring sorrow", 1942. [mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ensemble]
by Marjo Tal , "Song", 1978, from After, no. 1.
by Muriel Thomas , "The buds in spring", published 1961. [voice and piano]

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