Enda Reilly at The Rhymers' Club - FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER (Oscar Wilde)

Enda Reilly plays his original music setting of Oscar Wilde's poem From Spring Days to Winter, at The Rhymers' Club Re-enactment Concert in Chester Beatty Library on 25 April 2010, as part of the 2010 "Dublin: One City, One Book" (http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie) cultural festival (the book chosen for 2010 was Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray").

Enda Reilly is a guitarist singer-songwriter in Dublin.
http://www.endareilly.com
http://www.myspace.com/endaderoad

The Rhymers' Club founded by W.B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys in London in 1891.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhymers'_Club

Chester Beatty Library (museum)
http://www.cbl.ie

FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER
-Oscar Wilde

In the glad springtime when leaves were green,
O merrily the throstle sings!
I sought, amid the tangled sheen,
Love whom mine eyes had never seen,
O the glad dove has golden wings!

Between the blossoms red and white,
O merrily the throstle sings!
My love first came into my sight,
O perfect vision of delight,
O the glad dove has golden wings!

The yellow apples glowed like fire.
O merrily the throstle sings!
O Love too great for lip or lyre,
Blown rose of love and of desire,
O the glad dove has golden wings!

But now with snow the tree is grey,
Ah, sadly now the throstle sings!
My love is dead: ah ! well-a-day,
See at her silent feet I lay
A dove with broken wings!
Ah, Love ! ah, Love ! that thou wert slain---
Fond Dove, fond Dove return again!

Copyright Enda Reilly 2010

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