When the dew is falling

When the dew is falling
I have heard a calling
Of aerial sweet voices o'er the low green hill;

And when the moon is dying
I have heard a crying
Where the brown burn slippeth thro' the hollows green and still.

And O the sorrow upon me,
The grey grief upon me,
For a voice that whispered once, and now for aye is still:

O heart forsaken, calling
When the dew is falling,
To the one that comes not ever o'er the low green hill.

Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Authorship

• by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "When the dew is falling", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Henry Eichheim (1870 - 1942), "When the dew is falling", published <<1940. [
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• by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "When the dew is falling", op. 73 (Six Sets of Five Songs Each for Voice and Pianoforte, Set II) no. 2 (1927). [voice and piano] [
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• by Helen Hopekirk (1856 - 1945), "When the dew is falling", published <<1929 [medium voice and piano], from Six Poems by Fiona Macleod [
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• by Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983), "When the dew is falling" [
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• by William Spencer Johnson (1883 - ?), "When the dew is falling", published <<1940. [
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• by David Moule-Evans (b. 1905), "When the dew is falling", published c1946 [soprano and piano], from Two Celtic Songs [
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• by Edwin Schneider , "When the dew is falling", published <<1940. [
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Text added to the website: 2008-08-18.
Last modified: 2016-10-28 15:43:41
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