Winter Songs

Song Cycle by Annetta Rosser (1938 - 1998)

2. Dust of snow [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), "Dust of snow", appears in New Hampshire

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3. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To [watch]¹ his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farm-house near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", written 1922, appears in New Hampshire, first published 1923

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GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Halten am Walde im Abendschnee", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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¹ Barber: "see"

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4. Silver [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch 
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
[From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep]¹
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Silver", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 7. Earth and Air, no. 4, first published 1913

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¹ omitted by Bachlund, Britten, Duke, Gibbs.

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