by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Language: English
I woke in the midsummer not-to-call night in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a fingernail held to the candle, Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow of dark Maenefa the mountain; A cusp yet clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him entangled him, not quite utterly. This was the prized, the desirable sight, unsought, presented so easily, Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me eyelid and eyelid of slumber.
Composition:
- Set to music by Bernard Rands (b. 1934), "Moonrise", published 1980, first performed 1981 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Canti lunatici, no. 13, London : Universal Edition
Text Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "Moonrise", appears in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, first published 1918
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Word count: 93