by John Milton (1608 - 1674)
Now came still Evening on, and Twilight...
Language: English
Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased....
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- by John Milton (1608 - 1674), no title, appears in Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 598-604 [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 Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Evening", 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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