God's World (Millay, set by S. Adler, C. Alette, T. Colville, S. Harmati, W. Schuman, J. Wolfe) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!
    Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!
  Thy mists, that roll and rise!
Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with colour!  That gaunt crag
To crush!  To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!

Long have I known a glory in it all,
              But never knew I this;
              Here such a passion is
As stretcheth me apart, -- Lord, I do fear
Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year;
My soul is all but out of me, -- let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

Authorship

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Renascence and Other Poems

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

Samuel Hans Adler (1928-)

In Nature's Ebb and Flow

Carl Alette (1922-)

Thomas Colville

Sandor Harmati (1892-1936)

William Howard Schuman (1910-1992)

Jacques Wolfe (1896-1973)

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