1904
The Blackbird, op. 59, no. 3
Composed by 
Horatio Parker
Horatio Parker Text by 
William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley "The Blackbird" is the third song of Horatio Parker's Four Songs, Op. 59, published in 1904.
Text
The Blackbird
by William Ernest Henley
The nightingale has a lyre of gold,
The lark’s is a clarion call,
And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute,
But I love him best of all.
For his song is all of the joy of life,
And we in the mad, spring weather,
We two have listened till he sang
Our hearts and lips together.
Records
2017
Up Toward the Sky
Amy Marcy Beach, William Ernest Henley, Richard Hundley, Marianne Moore, James Purdy, Edward Rowland Sill, Gertrude Stein, Sara Teasdale, Virgil Thomson
