Not from successful love alone, Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war; But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm, As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky, As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air, As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree, Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all! The brooding and blissful halcyon days!
Four Songs - A Cycle
Song Cycle by Normand Lockwood (b. 1906)
?. Halcyon days  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Halcyon days"
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