O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees

O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees,
  I came along your narrow track
To bring my gifts unto your knees
  And gifts did you give back;
For when I brought this heart that burns--
  These thoughts that bitterly repine--
And laid them here among the ferns
  And the hum of boughs divine,
Ye, vastest breathers of the air,
  Shook down with slow and mighty poise
Your coolness on the human care,
  Your wonder on its toys,
Your greenness on the heart's despair,
  Your darkness on its noise.

by (Frederic) Herbert Trench (1865-1923) , "O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees", from New Poems, published 1907

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

by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees" [voice and piano]
by Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (1878-1958) , "O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees", op. 29 no. 4, published 1911.

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