June twilight

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

Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

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. [
   text not verified 
  ]
• by Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979), "June twilight", 1925, published 1926. [voice and piano] [
   text verified 1 time
  ]
• by Frederick John Easthope Martin (1882 - 1925), "June twilight", published 1919 [medium voice and piano], from Five Poems by John Masefield [
   text not verified 
  ]
• by Peter Charles Arthur Wishart (1921 - 1984), "June twilight", published 1960. [medium voice and piano] [
   text not verified 
  ]

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