by Eunice Tietjens, née Hammond (1884 - 1944)
A Lament of Scarlet Cloud
Language: English
O golden night, lit by the flame of seven stars, the years have drunk you too.
Authorship:
- by Eunice Tietjens, née Hammond (1884 - 1944), "A Lament of Scarlet Cloud", from Profiles from China, first published 1917 [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 Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), "A Lament of Scarlet Cloud", 1945, published 1951 [mezzo-soprano and piano; or tenor, piano, string quartet, and contrabass], from Profiles from China, no. 2. [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-08-12
Line count: 2
Word count: 16