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


I stood on the mountain side,
while the sun was setting;
Thrown o'er all the woods
I saw evening's gold and netting.

Clouds of heav'n above the field
dewy hung, and weeping;
Lull'd by eveningtolling bells
gentle earth lay sleeping.

Said I, "O my heart, be still",
still with silent Nature
And prepare thyself to rest
with each earthborn creature.

And the little blossoms then
closed their eyes in slumber
And the still brook sang to sleep wavelets,
wavelets without number.

Dewy larks sought joyfully 
low nests in the clover
and in glens the stag and doe slept
for day was over.

Input by Lidy van Noordenburg

Authorship

James Vila Blake (1842-1925)

Based on

text

Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866)

Lyrische Gedichte

Viertes Buch. Haus und Jahr

Fünfte Reihe. Sommer

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

Set in German, original text by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866) ENG

Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe (1796-1869)

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

DUT

Dutch

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

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