All day I hear the noise of waters

All day I hear the noise of waters
 Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is, when going
 Forth alone,
He hears the [winds]1 cry to the waters'
 Monotone.

The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
 Where I go.
I hear the noise of many waters
 Far below.
All day, all night, I hear them [flowing]2
 To and fro.

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¹ Coulthard: "wind's"
² Coulthard: "blowing"

Input by John Versmoren

Authorship

by James Joyce (1882-1941) , no title, from Chamber Music, no. 35, published 1908

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

by Creighton Allen (1900-1969) , "Lay of Solitude", published 1929.
by Luciano Berio (1925-2003) , "Monotone", 1953, published 1954 [female voice, clarinet, violoncello and harp], from Chamber Music, no. 2.
by Lorne M. Betts (1918-) , "All day I hear the noise of the water", 1951 [high voice and piano], from Six Songs to Poems of James Joyce, no. ?
by Louis Calabro (1926-) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1952 [medium voice, piano], from Three Songs for Medium Voice, no. ?
by Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", alternate title: "Noise of Waters", 1946 [medium voice and piano], from Three Songs for Medium Voice and Piano, no. 3.
by David Del Tredici (1937-) , "Monotone", 1958-60, published c1974, from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. 4.
by Joan Ferris , "All day I hear the noise of waters", published 1967 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Six Songs, no. ?
by Paul Fetler (1920-) , "All day I hear", published 1957. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Ross Lee Finney (1906-1997) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1952, published 1985, first performed 1975 [voice and piano], from Chamber Music, no. 35, Henmar Press
by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (1893-1962) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", published 1930 [medium voice, piano], from Chamber Music, no. ?
by Sergius Kagen (1909-1964) , "All day I hear", published 1950. [medium voice, piano]
by Hugo Kauder (1888-1972) , "All day I hear", published 1955 [soprano, alto, tenor, string quartet], from Ten Poems, no. ?
by Donald James Martino (1931-2005) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1951, published 1978, from Separate Songs, no. 1.
by Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) , "Noise of Waters", op. 74 no. 3, published 1959 [voice and piano], from James Joyce Songs, no. 3.
by Gardner Read (1913-) , "All day I hear", published 1950 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Songs for a Rainy Night, no. ?
by Tibor Serly (1901-1978) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1926 [mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra], from Four Songs from "Chamber Music", no. ?
by Vally Weigl, née Pick (1894?89?-1982) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1944-5, incomplete, MS at the Moldenhauer Archives, Harvard University

FRE French (Guy Laffaille) , title unknown, copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Tout le jour j'entends le bruit des...

Tout le jour j'entends le bruit des eaux
Qui gémissent,
Tristes comme l'oiseau marin quand il va
Seul en avant,
Il entend les vents crier
À la voix monocorde des eaux.

Les vents gris, les vents froids soufflent
Où je vais.
J'entends le bruit de nombreuses eaux
Loin en bas.
Tout le jour, toute la nuit, je les entends couler
Allant et venant.

Authorship

Translation from English to French copyright © 2009 by Guy Laffaille, guylaffaille (AT) yahoo (DOT) fr, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. Please contact the copyright-holder(s) when requesting permission to reprint and be sure to give proper credit.

a text in English by James Joyce (1882-1941) , no title, from Chamber Music, no. 35, published 1908

Text added to the website: 2009-11-04.