Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
  
The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water, remade, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) , "Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart"

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

by Nicholas Marshall (1942-) , "The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart" [high voice, treble recorder, violoncello, and harpsichord], from The falling of the leaves, no. ?
by John Raynor (1909-1970) , "The lover tells of a rose" [baritone and piano]

Date added to the website: 2009-01-17.

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