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by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

Under the harvest moon
 (Sung text for setting by J. Hall)
 Matches original text
Language: English 
  Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.
 
  Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

Composition:

    Set to music by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Under the harvest moon" [ soprano and piano ], from When the south wind sings -- 7 Songs for Soprano and Piano on Poems by Carl Sandburg, no. 5

Text Authorship:

  • by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Under the harvest moon", appears in Chicago Poems, first published 1916

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-17
Line count: 17
Word count: 65

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