In summer woods (Blake, set by J. Ireland) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


How jubilant the summer sky,
when turtle doves and cuckoos cry,
And when in wild and leafy wood
the song of nightingale is heard.

We wander in the shady grove,
and where red berries are we rove;
The ousel pipes his music low
and finches drum upon the bough.

Beside the blackcap vine we stay
on tender moss where shadows play
And flitting by, the cuckoo's brood
go babbling through the leafy wood.

Input by Lidy van Noordenburg

Authorship

James Vila Blake (1842-1925)

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

John Ireland (1879-1962)

Eight songs for upper voices and piano

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

DUT

Dutch

Date added to the website: 2008-10-20.

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