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Spring Song
04:33
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Spring Song
A bluebell springs upon the ledge
A lark sits singing in the hedge
Sweet perfumes scent the air
Life is brimming everywhere
No more the air sharp and cold
The planter wends across the wold
Glad, beneath the shining sky
We wander forth, my love and I
For life is life and love is love
Man and woman or dove and dove
Life may be short, life may be long
But love will come, and so its song
Love will come and to its song
Shall this refrain for ever cling
Of Spring
Words from the poem Spring Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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A Tale
04:52
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A Tale
The splendor of this autumn night
Across the meadows a golden light
The windows gleam through the leaves
Of woodbine hanging from the eaves
A place of sleep, a place of dreams
Far among the wooded hills
There in the warmth, the fire's glow
Fills the room large and low
And on the spinet's ivory keys
Plays its strange melodies
Silence outside the quaint abode
Save the rushing wind down the road
Then the voices from within
Bring to life the roadside inn
The music plays through the pause
Of laughter, joy and applause
The lament, the triumph and the pain
Lulled back into peace again
The tales told at this roadside inn
Now distant as misty dreams
Written in the pages of a book
Where by chance the living still may look
And see the days from long ago
Once flowers now beneath the snow
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Willow (Jerusha's song)
05:18
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Willow (Jerusha’s Song)
Willow, in your April gown
You’re delicate and gleaming
Do you mind in years gone by
All of my dreaming
Spring was like a call to me
A call I could not answer
I was chained to loneliness
I, the dancer
Willow, twinkling in the sun
Still your leaves and hear me
I can answer spring at last
When Love is near me
The roofs are shining from the rain
Sparrows sing as they fly
And with that windy April grace
All the clouds they go by
Oh lift me up and I shall reach the sun
Willow, in your April gown
Still your leaves and hear me
When Love is near me
Spring was like a call to me
A call I could not answer
I can answer spring at last
When Love is near me
Words from the poem April Song by Sara Teasdale
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Many Years Late
04:40
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Many Years Late
The evening light is soft and yellow
Gentle the April chill
You are many years late
Yes I am glad you are here
Forgive me that I lived in sorrow
Walking in silence half lost
Time and time again that I thought
Too many others were you
Come, sit now close to me
And look with cheerful eyes
Here it is, my blue handbook
Filled with my childhood poems
Forgive me that I lived in sorrow
Walking in silence half lost
Time and time again that I thought
Too many others were you
Words from the poem The evening light is broad and yellow by Anna Akhmatova
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The Sudbury Inn
06:07
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The Sudbury Inn
The cold and constant rain
Washed each window pane
Made a river of the road
A sea of mist overflowed
The house the barns and the vane
Drowned the upland and the plain
Through each the oak trees high
Like phantom ships went drifting by
Hidden behind the watery screen
The sun seen and unseen
As a faint pallor in the sky
cold and colorless and gray
The morning of that autumn day
Reluctant to begin
Dawned on the silent Sudbury Inn
and all the guest that in it lay
Words from the poem Prelude - Tales of a Wayside Inn - part second by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Another Evening
04:37
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Another Evening
Fall of night, when all is said and done
Sense of void lingers behind
Like an old song hidden in your mind
Comes alive every time that it’s found
Evening light, hanging around
Feeling my feet on solid ground
In a dream they all walked on by
The sun, the sea and the sky
When at times the wind at night
Sings old ballads to calm your fright
Melodies through mist pouring forth
Like rivers flowing from the north
When morning comes silence around
When the night dreams are all left behind
Precious light keep it close at bay
Shimmering on the sea like the final light of day
They come so easy the songs of sorrow
Yet a thousand reasons to live tomorrow
Regrets and sorrows of other days
Like seasons will fade in subtle ways
And when at times the wind at night
Sings old ballads to calm your fright
Songs in darkness pouring forth
Like rivers they flow from the north
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La Saulaie
03:39
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La Saulaie
Le couchant dardait ses rayons suprêmes
Et le vent berçait les nénuphars blêmes ;
Les grands nénuphars entre les roseaux,
Tristement luisaient sur les calmes eaux.
Moi, j’errais tout seul, promenant ma plaie
Au long de l’étang, parmi la saulaie
Où la brume vague évoquait un grand
Fantôme laiteux se désespérant
Et pleurant avec la voix des sarcelles
Qui se rappelaient en battant des ailes
Parmi la saulaie où j’errais tout seul
Promenant ma plaie ;
Et l’épais linceul
Des ténèbres vint noyer les suprêmes
Rayons du couchant dans ses ondes blêmes
Et les nénuphars, parmi les roseaux,
Les grands nénuphars sur les calmes eaux.
Moi, j’errais tout seul, promenant ma plaie
Au long de l’étang, parmi la saulaie
Où la brume vague évoquait un grand
Fantôme laiteux se désespérant
Words from the poem Promenade Sentimentale by Paul Verlaine
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The Late Hour
04:57
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The Late Hour
It’s moonlight, summer moonlight
Soft and still the air
The late hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere
Most where trees are sending
Their breezy boughs on high
Or stooping low are lending
A shelter from the sky
There in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently around her head
Words from the poem ’Tis moonlight, summer moonlight by Emily Brontë
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Moment of Peace
06:05
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Moment of Peace
Grant me a moment of peace
Let me but open my eyes
And forget the empire of lies
As I return to my fate
Grant me a moment of peace
Let me but open my eyes
To whatever I turn to it seems
There is a world where men fall
Grant me a moment of peace
To run in the desert of dreams
Weary and hungry and lone
Grant me a moment of peace
To whatever I turn from it seems
I will hear this song
A song for a moment of peace
To friends in exile to you
You will hear in my song
Echos of days that you knew
Blue and deep fearless and clear
Far in the hills that are dear
Friends in exile to you
Pause and remember them now
Plunge as you dive in the stream
To the sweet depth of your dreams
To run in the desert of dreams
Weary and hungry and lone
Grant me a moment of peace
To whatever I turn from it seems
I will hear your song
A song for a moment of peace
Words from the poem Dedication by John Le Gay Brereton
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Gold is Fading into Gray
05:52
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Gold is Fading into Gray
The river sleeps beneath the sky,
And clasps the shadows to its breast
The moon shines dim on high
Gold is fading into gray.
And in the lately radiant west
The gold is fading into gray.
Now stills the lark his festive lay,
And mourns with me the dying day.
While in the south the first faint star
Lifts to the night its silver face,
And shines to the moon afar
Across the heaven's graying space,
Whispers reach me from the town,
As Day puts on her sombre crown,
And shakes her mantle darkly down
While the gold is fading into gray
Words from the poem Sunset by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Silent Ship
05:20
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Silent Ship
There’s nothing out there
Just darkness and beyond
Silence all around me
And a dying sun
No spring flowers
No birds singing
No leaves dance in the breeze
Just a dying sun
I see no footsteps
Ahead or behind
No trace of a house I lived in
Under a dying sun
All around me an infinite cosmic dance
Within me a feeling of colours that dance
I’m in a silent ship leaving today
Without goodbyes from a nameless port
Last century’s girl
Changing time
Noise of the world
Is a dying sun
I won’t feel the wind
At sea on my face
No simple tree
To give me shade
No sand beneath my feet
No rain on my head
No hunger in my body
No tears to shed
All around me an infinite cosmic dance
Within me a feeling of colours that dance
I’m in a silent ship leaving today
Without goodbyes from a nameless port
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Deleyaman
Deleyaman is a French-American musical project founded in 2000 by Aret Madilian, Beatrice Valantin and Gerard Madilian.Their
sound can't be pigeon-holed into a single genre. It has been described as timeless and poetic. They are the first alternative band to have included the ancient wind instrument, the duduk, in their permanent line-up.
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