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Breaking billows at Sorrento

Language: English

A sky of whirling flakes of foam,
A rushing world of dazzling blue.
One moment, the sky looms in view---
The next, a crash in its curved dome,
A tumult indescribable,
And eyes dazed with the miracle.
    Here breaks by circling day and night
In thunder the sea's boundless might.


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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "Breaking billows at Sorrento", op. 69 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set III) no. 2 (1927). [voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2008-08-17.

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