by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
July
Language: English
My emblem is the Lion, and I breathe The breath of Libyan deserts o'er the land; My sickle as a sabre I unsheathe, And bent before me the pale harvests stand. The lakes and rivers shrink at my command, And there is thirst and fever in the air; The sky is changed to brass, the earth to sand; I am the Emperor whose name I bear.
Authorship:
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "July", appears in The Poet's Calendar, no. 7, first published 1882  [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "July", 1999, first performed 2000 [ tenor and piano ], from The Poet's Calendar -- 12 songs for Tenor and Piano, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "July", op. 151 no. 7 (2008) [ mixed chorus a cappella ], from The Poet's Calendar. Zwölf Miniaturen für vier- bis sechsstimmigen gemischten Chor nach Henry W. Longfellow, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2014-03-25
Line count: 8
Word count: 66