A feast of lanterns (Cranmer-Byng, set by G. Bantock, C. Griffes) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


In spring for sheer delight
I set the lanterns swinging through the trees,
Bright as the myriad argosies of night
That ride the clouded billows of the sky.
Red dragons leap and plunge in gold and silver seas,
And O! my garden gleaming cold and white,
Thou hast outshone the far, faint moon on high.

Authorship

Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872-1945)

A Feast of Lanterns

Based on

text

Yüan Mei (1716-1797)

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

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946)

Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set III

Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920)

Five Poems of Ancient China and Japan / Five Poems of the Ancient Far East

Date added to the website: 2009-08-23.

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