A starless sky and a slender moon, A silenced earth, like a silver noon, A vision of gnomes, with brows of snow, And the calm, wide white no bloom may know This is the world, and its heart is still, It shall fret no more its changeless will, Insensate beside its ashen hearth, Dumb it doth lie in the ice-wind's path.
Two songs to poems by L. G. Shuman
Song Cycle by Alexander Lang Steinert (1900 - 1982)
1. Snow at twilight [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Lilian Gertrude Shuman , "Snow at twilight", appears in In Praise of Leaves and Other Verse, first published 1906 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
2. My Lady of Clouds [sung text not yet checked]
Cradled in mist, is my Lady of Clouds, She is veiled with a shadow of wandering sky, She is rocked by the winds from their Eden on high, Oh, white as the Dawn, is my Lady of Clouds ! On thy shrine burn the stars, my Lady of Clouds, They illumine my dreams, that baffle the morn, And my soul that beheld thee, still watches forlorn, My soul now tempestuous, Lady of Clouds !
Authorship:
- by Lilian Gertrude Shuman , "My Lady of Clouds", appears in In Praise of Leaves and Other Verse, first published 1906 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Total word count: 135