First spring morning (Bridges, set by M. Blower, H. Brook, M. Eagles, R. Milford, B. Schlotel) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Look! Look! The spring is come :
O feel the gentle air,
That wanders thro' the boughs to burst
The thick buds everywhere !
The birds are glad to see
The high unclouded sun :
Winter is fled away, they sing,
The gay time is begun.
 
Adown the meadows green
Let us go dance and play,
And look for violets in the lane,
And ramble far away
To gather primroses,
That in the woodland grow,
And hunt for oxslips, or if yet
The blades of blue bells show :
 
There the old woodman gruff
Hath half the coppice cut,
And weaves the hurdles all day long
Beside his willow hut.
We'll steal on him, and then
Startle him, all with glee
Singing our song of winter fled
And summer soon to be.

Input by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Authorship

Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930)

Shorter Poems, Book V

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

Maurice Blower (1894-1982)

Harry Brook (1893-?)

Moneta Morrison Eagles (1924-)

Robin Humphrey Milford (1903-1959)

Joy and Memory

Brian Schlotel (1927-)

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