Had to listen to another choir singing this. We sang this while I was in high school. I miss these joyful days of us getting our songs down.

Way too slow

Sang this senior year at festival/clinic and our clinician was blown away. Great memories beautiful song brings me to tears now listening to it.

Beautiful morning 💕💕💜💜

Very good, love it. Thank you.

When I read this poem at school I fell in love with it. Such a beautiful poem:)

found this 12 years later:) so beautiful love it

This song is so beautiful.. the soprano 1 part was pretty intense. It was actually hard for me to hit those notes lmao,,, now that I’m out of high school I can no longer hit any good soprano 1 note, Ripperoni.. but my senior year this was the last song we sang and the senior girls wore no shoes and the guys wore no pants! We obviously had robes down to our shins but it was hilarious when we were getting our senior awards ,, when a guys name was called they would step down the riser and accept the award but they didn’t have any pants on so it was just their shoes , socks and the choir robe,, it was the best senior night ,,truly I miss it a ton and would love to re-live choir class.

I'm eating potato gnocchi.

Got to perform this my sophomore year of high school. It was seriously a privilege. This and Eric Whitacre's Lux Arumque are, in my opinion, the absolute most beautiful vocal pieces ever written. Maybe it's something about existing poetry put to music, I don't know. The poems alone are amazing and chilling, but the musical arrangements they have been set to are other-worldly.

first soprano for the win .!!.!.! one of my favorite pieces of all time and i loved learning it even though the notes went higher than a kite LMAO

like it better than the victor johnson arrangement!

I have listened to this choir sang this song many many times and I always come back to it. It’s a gorgeous song and the choir sang it to perfection. The bases always give me in the shivers and the “tees” are perfectly Together. If only Mr. Cummings had written that poem for me.

truly good memories got a 1 at state contest large group performance with this song.

Can I please know where to get the arrangement for this song?

Good up until it got to True on the ladies part, sounded terrible to me; pitchy. But other than that it was beautiful! And yes I know how difficult that note is I'm a soprano 1 and my choir sang this song.

How wonderful.

Very moving and enhanced by such awesome music.

How sweet and profound and fresh love can be even after a lifetime, even when that love is forbidden. If only there were a way all of us could accept and embrace the wonder of love.

this will always be one of my favorite choir pieces! i sang it in my freshman year and it was so fun to learn!

The beautiful easy free musical style of this song is brought to the forefront from the excellent beautiful tenor voice of Richard Tucker, that's giving me the chills as I hear this song for the first time in my life, but I have so far listen to it about 9 times. This ladies and gentlemen is the sound of a great tenor voice that lacks nothing and is a complete vocally. R.I.P Richard Tucker

i want so badly to "like" this video, but it's at 333 likes 😣

Idk why any one would make a bad comment. I mean seriously they are the best choir I have ever heard in my entire life, and are probably better then any of those people who are leaving improvement suggestions.

Wow! So beautiful!

I heard the writer of this poem commited suicide

this song has such a touching histery it was a song that slaves sang at night they would get together and sing about there troubles

We sang a similar version with accompaniment in high school. My choir director began crying during our concert while we sang. We talked about it at a later time. He told me it was the part about going to see his mother that made him lose it. Such a beautiful touching song.

excellent piano playing.

It sounds a little sharp like maybe one or one-half a step.

Where was the fire?

My chorus sang this for our member Christina's wedding. We were all in tears.

That high note was not good.

the piano part gave me chills, especially the beginning. Just imagine if it was orchestrated, and the strings and wind section were sharing that part. AMAZING

Deeply moving. In tears.

and he never got back to him...

Sang this song 2 years in a row to with with my Ex in chior. Things will be so different without him this year </3 so bitter sweet

One of my favorite works--well done here!

Tenors, represent!

Gorgeous! And this is from an NC bluegrass amateur who jams with others and does this song every week.

Yeah, our guys had 3 months for the festival and then the rest of the year for the last concert.

Never said it was bad...

You're so mean.

The A Capella choir at my school did this year. If we did it too fast, it fell apart. But it depends on the group and how much time you have to work on it. Don't gloat. It doesn't suit you.

My school's chorus has a larger group and did it in the fast tempo... They said it wasnt that hard...

So a train is slow?

The lyrics are by Edward Estin Cummings! He was an American poet who wrote approximately about 2,900 poems and this is one of them!!!

dear lord man. this was great, makes me wonder why Im not in choir.

its to represent a train

they need to learn staggerd breathing