All day I hear the noise of waters

All day I hear the noise of waters
  Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is, when going
  Forth alone,
He hears the winds cry to the waters'
  Monotone. 

The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
  Where I go.
I hear the noise of many waters
  Far below.
All day, all night, I hear them flowing
  To and fro.

by James Joyce (1882-1941) , from Chamber Music, no. 35, published 1908

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Creighton Allen (1900-1969) , "Lay of Solitude", published 1929.
by Luciano Berio (1925-2003) , "Monotone", 1953, published 1954 [female voice, clarinet, violoncello and harp], from Chamber Music, no. 2.
by Lorne M. Betts (1918-) , "All day I hear the noise of the water", 1951 [high voice and piano], from Six Songs to Poems of James Joyce, no. ?
by Louis Calabro (1926-) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1952 [medium voice, piano], from Three Songs for Medium Voice, no. ?
by Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1946 [medium voice and piano], from Three Songs, no. ?
by David Del Tredici (1937-) , "Monotone", 1958-60, published c1974, from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. ?
by Joan Ferris , "All day I hear the noise of waters", published 1967 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Six Songs, no. ?
by Paul Fetler (1920-) , "All day I hear", published 1957. [SATB a cappella]
by Sir (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens (1893-1962) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", published 1930 [medium voice, piano], from Chamber Music, no. ?
by Sergius Kagen (1909-1964) , "All day I hear", published 1950. [medium voice, piano]
by Hugo Kauder (1888-1972) , "All day I hear", published 1955 [soprano, alto, tenor, string quartet], from Ten Poems, no. ?
by Donald James Martino (1931-2005) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1951, published 1978, from Separate Songs, no. 1.
by Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) , "Noise of Waters", op. 74 no. 3, published 1959 [voice and piano], from James Joyce Songs, no. 3.
by Gardner Read (1913-) , "All day I hear", published 1950 [mezzosoprano and piano], from Songs for a Rainy Night, no. ?
by Tibor Serly (1901-1978) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1926 [mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra], from Four Songs from "Chamber Music", no. ?
by Vally Weigl, née Pick (1894?89?-1982) , "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1944-5, incomplete, MS at the Moldenhauer Archives, Harvard University

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Tout le jour j'entends le bruit des...

Tout le jour j'entends le bruit des eaux
Qui gémissent,
Tristes comme l'oiseau marin quand il va
Seul en avant,
Il entend les vents crier
À la voix monocorde des eaux.

Les vents gris, les vents froids soufflent
Où je vais.
J'entends le bruit de nombreuses eaux
Loin en bas.
Tout le jour, toute la nuit, je les entends couler
Allant et venant.

Translation from English to French copyright © 2009 by Guy Laffaille (guylaffaille (AT) yahoo (DOT) fr), (re)printed on this website with kind permission. Please contact the copyright-holder when requesting permission to reprint.

a text in English by James Joyce (1882-1941) , from Chamber Music, no. 35, published 1908

Date added to the website: 2009-11-04.