"Love let the wind cry..." by Undine Smith Moore: Deborah Selig, soprano and Andrew Welch, pianist

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"Love, let the wind cry..." by Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)
Deborah Selig, soprano
Andrew Welch, piano
Recorded live in recital at Brown University
Grant Recital Hall February 2024

Love, let the wind cry… How I adore thee
Love let the wind cry
On the dark mountain,
Bending the ash trees
And the tall hemlocks
With the great voice of
Thunderous legions,
How I adore thee.


Let the hoarse torrent
In the blue canyon,
Murmuring mightily
Out of the gray mist
Of primal chaos
Cease not proclaiming
How I adore thee.


Let the long rhythm
Of crunching rollers,
Breaking and bursting
On the white seaboard
Titan and tireless,
Tell, while the world stands,
How I adore thee.

Love, let the clear call
Of the tree cricket,
Frailest of creatures,
Green as the young grass,
Mark with his trilling
Resonant bell-note,
How I adore thee.


But, more than all sounds,
Surer, serener,
Fuller of passion
And exultation,
Let the hushed whisper
In thine own heart say,
How I adore thee.

Poetry by Sappho, translated by H.T. Wharton, rendered by William Bliss Carman