A Poison Tree (Charles West)

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  • (Posted 2019-04-26)  CPDL #54069:       
Editor: Charles West (submitted 2019-04-26).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 109 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: I would appreciate notification by email (cghwest@yahoo.co.uk) of your intention to perform this work.

General Information

Title: A Poison Tree

Composer: Charles West
Lyricist: William Blake

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TBB
Genre: SecularBallade

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2017
Description: 

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Original text and translations

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I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine.
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

from William Blake: Songs of Experience, 1794.