by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956)
Winter evening Matches original text
Language: English
Over the wintry fields the snow drifts; falling, falling; Its frozen burden filling each hollow. And hark; Out of the naked woods a wild bird calling, On the starless verge of the dark!
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Composition:
- Set to music by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Winter evening", 1989, copyright © 2017, first performed 1990 [ baritone and piano ], from Winter Windows -- 7 songs for Baritone and Piano, no. 6, E. C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group
Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Winter evening", appears in Inward Companion, first published 1950
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This text was added to the website: 2016-04-02
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