by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906)
An angel, robed in spotless white
Language: English
An angel, robed in spotless white, Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night. Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone. [Men]1 saw the blush and called it Dawn.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906), "Dawn", appears in Majors and Minors, first published 1895 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Dawn", 2009 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Tom Cipullo (b. 1960), "Dawn", 2000 [ voice and piano ], from Climbing: 7 Songs on 8 Poems by African-Americans, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "Dawn", op. 17 (African Romances) no. 4, published 1897 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederick D. Hall , "Dawn", op. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franco Leoni (1864 - 1949), "The Birth of Morn", published 1902 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Thompson (b. 1954), "Dawn", 1999 [ soprano and piano ], from The Shadow of Dawn: Five Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2005-07-25
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Word count: 29