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Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver sleeps the dog; [From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep]1 A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws, and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 omitted by Bachlund, Britten, Duke, Gibbs.
Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Silver", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 7. Earth and Air, no. 4, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Violet Balestreri Archer (1913 - 2000), "Silver", <<1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Silver", 1985 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Three Poems of Walter de la Mare, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "Silver", published 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Five Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "Silver", op. 26 no. 5 (1946), published 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Five Songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Silver", published 1969 [ voice and piano ], from Tit for tat, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Walter Joseph Buczynski (b. 1933), "Silver", 1955 [ alto and piano ], from Four Poems of Walter de la Mare [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Butterworth (b. 1923), "Silver", 1948 [ soprano and piano ], from Four Nocturnal Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Silver", published 1961 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Emeléus , "Silver", published 1962 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harry Farjeon (1878 - 1948), "Silver", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from The Little Green Orchard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Gál (1890 - 1987), "Silver", op. 77 no. 9 (1951), published 1960 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano solo, three-part women's chorus, and strings ], from Of a Summer Day, no. 9, Association of American Choruses, Philadelphia [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Silver", op. 30 (Two Songs) no. 2 (1920), published 1922 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Harold Walter Greenhill (1902 - ?), "Silver", published 1934 [ 2-part children's chorus or women's chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Colin Hand (1929 - 2015), "Silver", published 1955 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Harris (1869 - 1943), "Silver", published 1922 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christian Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901 - 1947), "Silver", published 1928 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "Silver", from Four songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elaine Hugh-Jones (b. 1927), "Silver", 1985 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Eight Songs of Walter de la Mare, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John G. Koch (b. 1928), "Silver", published 1965 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anthony Francis Dominic Milner (b. 1925), "Silver", published 1959 [ SSA chorus a cappella ], from Peacock Pie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reginald Redman (1892 - 1972), "Silver", published 1967 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Annetta Rosser (1938 - 1998), "Silver", published 1997, from Winter Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Neil Saunders (b. 1918), "Silver", published 1963 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Shepherd (1880 - 1958), "Slowly, silently, now the moon" [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Smalley (b. 1943), "Silver", 1961, rev. 1970-1 [ mezzo-soprano or soprano and piano ], from Three Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin M. Smith (b. 1938), "Silver", published 1951 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "Silver", 1999 [ mezzo-soprano, flute, and piano ], from Silvery Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by William S. Vosper (b. 1932), "Silver", 1955 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vally Weigl, née Pick (c1894 - 1982), "Silver" [ medium voice, recorder, and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Douglas Young (b. 1947), "Silver", 1967, published 1973, rev. 1969 [ soprano, speaker (male), chamber orchestra ], cantata: ; note: choreographed for ballet in 1969 by Geoffrey Cawley [sung text not yet checked]
- by Douglas William Alfred Zanders (b. 1918), "Silver", 1952 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 91
Der Mond, er wandert still, bedacht in Silberschuhen durch die Nacht, Mal hier, mal dort sein Auge sucht auf Silberbäumen Silberfrucht; die Fenster fangen nach und nach die Strahlen ein vom Silberdach; tief schläft der Hund in seinem Haus, zwei Silberpfoten schaun heraus; Schemenhaft zeigen sich in ihrem Schlag Tauben im Silbergefiederschlaf. die Zwergmaus huscht, ist kaum zu sehn, mit Silberauge, Silberzeh'n; reglos der Fisch im Wasser glänzt, silbernes Schilf an den Silberstrom grenzt.
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Translation of title "Silver" = "Silber"Authorship:
- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2013 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Silver", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 7. Earth and Air, no. 4, first published 1913
This text was added to the website: 2013-11-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 74