by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
Fall, leaves, fall Matches base text
Language: English
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night's decay Ushers in a drearier day.
Composition:
- Set to music by Donald Bohlen (b. 1934), "Fall, leaves, fall", 1997 [ soprano, clarinet, and piano ], from Five Movements: Songs and Doubles, no. 3
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title, appears in The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë, first published 1910
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 46