by Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917), as Edward Eastaway

Language: English 
Will you come?
 ... 
Will you ride
So late
At my side?
O, will you come?

 ... 
If the night
Has a moon,
 ... ?

 ... 
Would you come
If the noon
Gave light,
Not the moon?
O beautiful, would you come?

 ... 
Would you have come
Without scorning,
Had it been
Still morning?
Beloved, would you have come?

If you come
Haste and come,
Owls have cried;
It grows dark 
To ride.
Beloved, beautiful, come.

Composition:

    Set to music by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994), "Will you come?", 1965, first performed 1966 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Nocturnal, no. 2

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917), as Edward Eastaway, "Will you come?", first published 1917

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Researcher for this page: David Kenneth Smith

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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