The eagle
Language:
English
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Carl Reinhold Busch (1862-1943)
, "The eagle", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Nicolas Flagello (1928-)
, "The eagle", published 1964 [bass-baritone and chamber orchestra], from The Land, no. ?
by George Alfred Grant-Schaefer (1872-1939)
, "The eagle", published 1909. [voice and piano]
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
, "The eagle", 1919. [voice and piano]
by Jacob Heymann
, "The eagle", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob (1895-1984)
, "The eagle", published 1963 [unison (s) voices and piano], from The Cheerful Birds
by Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908)
, "The eagle", 1888, published 1894, from Four Little Poems
by Peter Russell Naylor (1933-)
, "The eagle", 1970 [tenor or baritone and piano], from Bird Songs
by Seneca Pierce
, "The eagle", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by James Wilson (1922-)
, "The eagle", 1966, first performed 1967 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Three Birds
Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):
Date added to the website: 2008-01-09.
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