by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
I have desired to go
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow. And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.
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Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "Heaven-Haven", subtitle: "A nun takes the veil", appears in Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse, first published 1895 [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 Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "A nun takes the veil", subtitle: "Heaven-Haven", op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 1, published 1961 [ SATB chorus (or SSAA chorus or TTBB chorus) a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by David Frederick Barlow (1927 - 1975), "Heaven-Haven" [ alto, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921), "Heaven-Haven", 1976 [ voice and piano ], from From a Watchtower, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "I have desired to go", op. 116 no. 2, F. 36 no. 2, published 1970 [ SATB chorus, 2 flutes, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones ], from The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Heaven haven", 1928 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adrian Cruft (b. 1921), "Heaven-Haven", published 1961 [ soprano and violin ], from Two Songs of Quiet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Dickinson (b. 1934), "Heaven-Haven", 1960-4 [ soprano, baritone, SATB chorus, and organ ], from Four Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems [sung text not yet checked]
- by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986), "Heaven-Haven", published 1956 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Flanagan (1923 - 1969), "Heaven Haven" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Freed (1894 - 1973), "Heaven-Haven", published 1957 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daan Manneke (b. 1939), "Heaven-Haven", 1974 [ low voice and harpsichord or organ or piano ], from Five songs on English poems, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923 - 2006), "Heaven-Haven", published 1970 [ tenor or baritone, viola ], from Eight Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Heaven-Haven", op. 104 (1946) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Eugene Ward (1917 - 2013), "Heaven-Haven", published 1966 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Sacred Songs for Pantheists, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , subtitle: "Sie geht ins Kloster", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 51