by John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
June twilight
Language: English
The twilight comes; the sun dips down and sets, The boys have done play at the nets. In a warm golden glow The woods are steeped. The shadows grow; The bat has cheeped. Sweet smells the new-mown hay; The mowers pass Home, each his way, through the grass. The night-wind stirs the fern, A night-jar spins; The windows burn In the inns. Dusky it grows. The moon! The dews descend. Love, can this beauty in our hearts end?
First published in Speaker, June 1904
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Text Authorship:
- by John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "June twilight", appears in Ballads and Poems, first published 1910 [author's text not yet checked 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 Roy Ewing Agnew (1893 - 1944), "June twilight", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979), "June twilight", 1925, published 1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederick John Easthope Martin (1882 - 1925), "June twilight", published 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from Five Poems by John Masefield [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "June Twilight", op. 11 (1943) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Charles Arthur Wishart (1921 - 1984), "June twilight", published 1960 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 78