Deborah Mason
Three Poems by D.H. Lawrence for Soprano and Piano
Year: 2000
Duration (in minutes): 10 minutes
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Publisher: Deborah Mason
Score PDF: Three-Poems-by-D.H.-Lawrence.pdf
Description: "Running Barefoot" When the white feet of the baby beat accross the grass The little white feet nod like white flowers in the wind, They poise, and run like puffs of wind that pass Over water where the weeds are thinned. And the sight of their white playing in the grass Is winsome as a robin's song, so fluttering; Or like two butterflies that settle on a glass Cup for a moment, soft little wing-beats uttering. And I wish that the baby would tack across here to me Like a wind-shadow running on a pond, so she could stand With two little bare white feet upon my knee And I could feel her feet in either hand Cool as syringa buds in morning hours, Or firm and silken as young peony flowers. "Silence" Since I lost you, I am silence-haunted; Sounds wave their little wings A moment, then in weariness settle on the flood that soundless swings. Whether the people in the street Like pattering ripples go by, Or whether the theatre sighs and sighs With a loud hoarse sigh: Or the wind shakes a ravel of light Over the dead-black river, Or last night's echoings Make the daybreak shiver: I feel the silence waiting To sip them all up again, In its last completeness drinking Down the noise of men. "Moonrise" And who has seen the moon, who has not seen Her rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss, till all her lambent beauty shakes towards us Spread out and known at last, and we are sure That beauty is a thing beyond the grave, That perfect bright experience never falls To nothingness, and time will dim the moon Sooner than our full consummation here In this odd life will tarnish or pass away.
