Winter My Secret By Christina Rossetti-Emma Topping/USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Vienna State Opera Orchestra

[ti:Winter My Secret By Christina Rossetti] [ar:Emma Topping] [al:Poetry and Music for Winter] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.42]Winter my secret [00:02.09] [00:02.99]I tell my secret No indeed not I; [00:05.93] [00:06.62]Perhaps some day who knows [00:09.04]But not today; it froze and blows and snows [00:13.59]And you're too curious: fie [00:15.74]You want to hear it well: [00:17.96]Only my secret's mine [00:20.03]And I won't tell [00:21.41] [00:22.61]Or after all perhaps there's none: [00:25.09] [00:25.62]Suppose there is no secret after all [00:27.65]But only just my fun [00:29.24] [00:29.84]Today's a nipping day a biting day; [00:32.94]In which one wants a shawl [00:34.56]A veil a cloak and other wraps: [00:37.24]I cannot ope to everyone who taps [00:39.75]And let the draughts come whistling thro' my hall; [00:42.50] [00:43.11]Come bounding and surrounding me [00:44.91]Come buffeting astounding me [00:47.18]Nipping and clipping thro' my wraps and all [00:49.81] [00:50.42]I wear my mask for warmth: who ever shows [00:53.65]His nose to Russian snows [00:55.39]To be pecked at by every wind that blows [00:58.06] [00:58.64]You would not peck I thank you for good will [01:01.73]Believe but leave the truth untested still [01:04.88] [01:05.78]Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust [01:08.68]March with its peck of dust [01:10.70]Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers [01:13.59] [01:14.18]Nor even May whose flowers [01:16.15]One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours [01:19.06] [01:19.71]Perhaps some languid summer day [01:22.13]When drowsy birds sing less and less [01:24.55]And golden fruit is ripening to excess [01:27.77]If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud [01:31.01]And the warm wind is neither still nor loud [01:34.03]Perhaps my secret I may say [01:37.02] [01:37.86]Or you may guess [01:39.10]Winter My Secret By Christina Rossetti - Emma Topping