"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" for SAB Choir and Piano

Keane Southard

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud for

SAB choir and Piano

Poem by William Wordsworth

(2007) (Duration: c. 3 mins.)

Program notes: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud was written for the Algonquin Regional High School Freshman Chorale, conducted by Kathrine Waters, in 2007 and is my first work for choir. I found this Wordsworth poem in an anthology I had while taking a poetry class and thought it would work well in a choral setting, and luckily I had the opportunity to do so for the freshman choir at my former high school.

Keane Southard 2007

Keane Southard/Spindrift Pages Email: keane.southard@hotmail.com Website: keanesouthard.instantencore.com

For the Algonquin Regional High School Freshman Chorale

Poem by William Wordsworth (Public Domain)

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such a

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show

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  

    

gazed and gazed and gazed but lit - tle



What wealth the show to me had brought: mf



poco accel.

I gazed and gazed and

rit.

Pno.



jo - cund com - pan - y:

         

A.

B.



p

  

q = 92



          pp

 



  

3

7

  

   

lie

In

54

S. Solo

S.

A.

B.

Pno.



-

cant or in pen - sive

mood,





 









 

They

  

                                   3          



   flash

 

S.

Oo



A.



Oo

B.

va

   

      

 

57

S. Solo





 

     u - pon that in - ward eye

  

   Which

 is

  

      

(Rejoin sopranos)

the bliss of so - li - tude;









 

mp

 

Oo And





                             3 3              



mp

Oo And

Oo

Pno.



mp

 

Oo And

  



mp

 

8

rit.

61

S.

   then

 

A.

then

B.



  then

      my heart with ple - sure

     

my heart with ple - sure

     

my heart with ple - sure

 fills,



fills,

    And

   

And

pp

 dan

       

-

ces with the daf - fo - dils.

-

        pp



dan

ces with the daf - fo - dils.

pp

 fills,

   

And

 dan

-

         

ces with the da - fo - dils.

rit.

   Pno.

  

   

   

     

pp

  