The fisher's widow (Symons, set by L. Coerne, C. Edwards, P. McIntyre, H. Tye) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The boats go out and the boats come in
Under the wintry sky.
And the rain and the foam are white in the wind
And all the gulls cry. 

She sees the sea when the wind is wild
Swept by the windy rain
And her heart's a-weary of sea and land
As the long days wane.  

She sees the torn sails fly in the foam
Broad on the sky line gray.
And the boats go out and the boats come in
But there's one away.

Authorship

Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

Days and Nights

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

Louis Adolphe Coerne (1870-1922)

Clara Edwards (1887-1974)

Paul McIntyre

Three Poems of Arthur Symonds [sic]

Henry Tye

Date added to the website: 2008-07-07.

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