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by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

Some things are dark
Language: English 
Some things are dark — or think they are.
But, in comparison to me,
All things are light enough to see
In any place, at any hour.
For I am Nightmare: where I fly,
Terror and rain stand in the sky
So thick, you could not tell them from
That blackness out of which you come.

So much for “where I fly”: but when
I strike, and clutch in claw the brain —
Erebus, to such brain, will seem
The thin blue dusk of pleasant dream.

Text Authorship:

  • by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Some things are dark" [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 Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Some things are dark", 1987 [ soprano and piano ], from Night Dances - 6 songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-03-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 86

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