by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
The curtains now are drawn
Language: English
The curtains now are drawn, And the spindrift strikes the glass, Blown up the jagged pass By the surly salt sou'-west, And the sneering glare is gone Behind the yonder crest, While she sings to me: "O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine, And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine, And death may come, but loving is divine." I stand here in the rain, With its smite upon her stone, And the grasses that have grown Over women, children, men, And their texts that "Life is vain"; But I hear the notes as when Once she sang to me: "O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine, And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine, And death may come, but loving is divine."
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Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "The curtains now are drawn", first published 1913 [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 Roy Buckle (b. 1926), "The curtains now are drawn", subtitle: "Nocturne" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Andrew Downes (1950 - 2023), "The curtains now are drawn", op. 29 no. 5 (1983), from Old Love's Domain, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert H. Patterson , "The curtains now are drawn", published 1927 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
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Word count: 137