The Sea Gypsy

I am fever'd with the sunset,
I am fretful with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me,
And my soul is in Cathay.

There's a schooner in the offing,
With her topsails shot with fire,
And my heart has gone aboard her
For the Islands of Desire.

I must forth again to-morrow!
With the sunset I must be
Hull down on the trail of rapture
In the wonder of the sea.

Authorship

by Richard Hovey (1864-1900) , "The Sea Gypsy", from More Songs from Vagabondia, published 1896

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

by Henry Clough-Leighter (1874-1956) , "Sea Gypsy", op. 65 no. 1, published 1919. [baritone and piano]
by Michael (Dewar) Head (1900-1976) , "The sea gipsy", 1920, published 1920. [voice and piano]
by Geoffrey O'Hara (1882-1967) , "The Sea Gypsy", published 1933. [TTBB chorus or TTBB quartet and piano]

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