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How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory yonder Moon divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert-circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!
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- by Robert Southey (1774 - 1843), appears in Thalaba the Destroyer, first published 1800 [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 George Crumb (b. 1929), "Night" [ voice and piano ], from Three Early Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 - 1984), "How beautiful is night" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
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Word count: 55
Qué hermosa es la noche una fresca humedad llena el aire silencioso sin niebla oscura, ninguna nube, ni motas ni manchas rompen la serenidad del cielo: en gloriosa plenitud la divina luna se mueve en la profundidad oscura del azul. Junto a su rayo constante se extienden los círculos desiertos como el redondo océano rodeado por el cielo. Qué hermosa es la noche.
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Translation of title "Night" = "Noche"Authorship
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- a text in English by Robert Southey (1774 - 1843), appears in Thalaba the Destroyer, first published 1800
This text was added to the website: 2020-10-09
Line count: 10
Word count: 63