by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod
Nocturne
Language: English
By dim, mauve and. dream-white bushes of lilac I pass to the cypress alley, and to the mere which lies breathless in the moonshine. A fish leaps, a momentary flame of fire. Then all is still again on the moonlit mere, where, breathless, it lies beyond the cypress alley. In the vague moonshine of the cypress alley I pass again, a silent shadow, by the dim, mauve and dream-white bushes of lilac.
Text Authorship:
- by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "Nocturne", appears in The Silence of Amor: Prose Rhythms, first published 1896 [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 Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Nocturne", 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Celtic Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-18
Line count: 9
Word count: 72