Listen. With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall.
Five Songs
Song Cycle by George Antheil (1900 - 1959)
1. November night  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914), "November night", appears in Verse, first published 1915
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Note: Bottelier's setting begins with the title "November night" sung twice.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
2. Triad  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
These be three silent things: The falling snow . . . the hour Before the dawn . . . the mouth of one Just dead.
Text Authorship:
- by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914), "Triad", appears in Verse, first published 1915
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Note: Bottelier's setting begins with the title "Triad" sung twice.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
3. Susanna and the Elders  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
"Why do You thus devise Evil against her?" "For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore."
Text Authorship:
- by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914), "Susanna and the Elders"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]4. Fate Defied  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
As it Were tissue of silver I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.
Text Authorship:
- by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914), "Fate defied", appears in Cinquains
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]5. The warning  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Just now, Out of the strange Still dusk . . . as strange, as still . . . A white moth flew . . . Why am I grown So cold?
Text Authorship:
- by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914), "The warning", appears in Verse, first published 1915
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Note: Bottelier's setting begins with the title "The warning"Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 111