by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Stars, I have seen them fall
Language: English
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt.
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Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in More Poems, no. 7, first published 1936 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Stars", published 1952 [medium voice and piano], from Quiet Airs, no. 8. [text not verified]
- by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), "Stars", published 1952 [medium voice and piano], from Five Songs, no. 3. [text not verified]
- by Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "Stars", 2005, first performed 2005 [tenor and baritone with violin, viola, cello and piano], from Here and Gone, no. 3. [text verified 1 time]
- by Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923 - 2006), "Stars, I have seen them fall" [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-19
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Word count: 45