The Winter’s Spring for High Voice & Piano
David Lewiston Sharpe
Scoring High Voice Piano Duration: 5 mins approx. _________________
The Winter’s Spring The winter comes; I walk alone, I want no bird to sing; To those who keep their hearts their own The winter is the spring. No flowers to please-no bees to humThe coming spring's already come. I never want the Christmas rose To come before its time; The seasons, each as God bestows, Are simple and sublime. I love to see the snowstorm hing; 'Tis but the winter garb of spring I never want the grass to bloom: The snowstorm's best in white. I love to see the tempest come And love its piercing light. The dazzled eyes that love to cling O'er snow-white meadows sees the spring. I love the snow, the crumpling snow That hangs on everything, It covers everything below Like white dove's brooding wing, A landscape to the aching sight, A vast expanse of dazzling light. It is the foliage of the woods That winters bring-the dress, White Easter of the year in bud, That makes the winter Spring. The frost and snow his posies bring, Nature's white spurts of the spring. John Clare ( 1793-1864)
The Winter’s Spring John Clare (1793–1864)
David Lewiston Sharpe
Poco andante q = 64
p mesto
The
win - ter
comes;
p mesto e sostenuto
dim.
I want no bird to sing;
meno f
spring.
No
flowers
walk a - lone,
poco mp p
To those who keep their hearts their own The win-ter is the
dim. p
I
7
to
please –
sempre pp e dolciss.
no
cresc.
4
più f
poco
bees to
dim.
hum –
Music © Copyright 2002 by David Lewiston Sharpe
2
10
The
cresc. a poco
com - ing
spring’s
al
-
poco
read - y
come.
poco sost.
Poco meno mosso
13
pp
16
pp
I
ne - ver want the Christ - mas rose
To come
be
p dolce
p sempre
its
The sea - sons, each as
fore
A tempo
time;
-
poco cresc.
cresc.
God be - stows, Are sim - ple and sub -
3
19
Più lento
- lime.
22
-
p dolciss.
garb
poco mf espr. molto
ne
-
of
ver
dim.
spring.
I
ter
A tempo
25
win
see the snow - storm hing;
’Tis but the
love to
pp
mp
sfz poco
I
poco cresc.
want the grass to
dim.
bloom:
4
cresc.
The snow -storm’s best
in
poco f
white.
34
And love its
cresc.
p
The
daz - zled
poco mf
cresc.
pier - cing light.
eyes
that love to
meno
cling
O’er
pp sempre
I love to see the
meno ma poco mf
tem - pest come
sub. pp
31
p strugg. e cresc.
28
5
37
snow - white
mea - dows
sees
poco sost.
40
43
dim.
spring.
poco
mp mesto e dolce
the
dim.
mp dolce cresc.
mp
I
love
the
poco
snow,
the
6
snow
That hangs on
52
ach - ing
(l.h.)
sight,
A
vast ex -
panse
A
p dolciss.
wing
It co - vers eve - ry -
- thing be - low Like white doves brood - ing
eve - ry - thing
49
land - scape
to the
poco
of
daz - zling light.
crump -ling
46
7
55
sost.
Più lento
p
rit.
A tempo
p
58
It
is
the fo - liage of the
woods
p sost.
Meno mosso
61
dress,
pp sempre
White Eas - ter of the
pp sempre
That
the
year in bud, That makes the win - ter
win - ters bring –
dim.
Spring.
The
8
64
frost
and
snow
accel.
his
po - sies bring,
Na
dim.
A tempo
p senza vib.
white
spurts
-
ture’s
p sempre e sost.
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of the spring.
70
cresc. a poco
dim. molto mp