by Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929)
In the apple boughs the coolness
Language: English
In the apple boughs the coolness Murmurs, and the grey leaves flicker Where sleep wanders. In the garden all the hot noon I await thy fluttering footfall Through the twilight.
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Text Authorship:
- by Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929) [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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "The apple orchard", 1919, published 1979 [ voice and piano ], revised c1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870 - 1946), "In the apple boughs" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder songs; The songs of Sappho from fragments of the lost poems of Sappho, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
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