by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
The half‑moon westers low Matches original text
Language: English
The half-moon westers low, my love, And the wind brings up the rain; And wide apart we lie, my love, And seas between the twain. I know not if it rains, my love, In the land where you do lie; And oh, so sound you sleep, my love. You know no more than I.
Composition:
- Set to music by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "The half-moon westers low", op. 14 no. 3a (1940), published 1983 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3, no. 1
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Last Poems, no. 26, first published 1922
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