All hushed and still within the house
Without - all [wind and driving rain]1.
But something whispers to my mind
Through [rain and through the]2 wailing wind -

- Never again,
Never again? Why not again?
Memory has power as real as [thine]3.

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Note: in the Fisk work, this is sung by Lockwood
¹ Fisk: "storm and driving wind"
² Fisk: "snow and storm and"
³ Fisk: "time"

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title, from The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë, first published 1910 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Christopher Roland Brown (b. 1943), "All hushed and still within the house", 1974 [counter-tenor, alto or baritone, and chamber orchestra], from Soliloquy [
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  ]
• by Terry Fisk , "All hushed and still", published 2002, from Wuthering Heights, no. 3. [
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  ]

Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk

This text was added to the website: 2004-02-05
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