Swans (Teasdale, set by A. Kramer, D. Rybner) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Night is over the park, and a few brave stars
      Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,
The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars
      That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold.

We watch the swans that sleep in a shadowy place,
      And now and again one wakes and uplifts its head;
How still you are--your gaze is on my face--
      We watch the swans and never a word is said.

Authorship

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Rivers to the Sea

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

Arthur Walter Kramer (1890-1969)

Dagmar de Corval Rybner (1890-)

Date added to the website: 2008-06-04.

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