by Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918)
Through these pale cold days
Language: English
Through these pale cold days What dark faces burn Out of three thousand years, And their wild eyes yearn, While underneath their brows Like waifs their spirits grope For the pools of Hebron again- For Lebanon’s summer slope. They leave these blonde still days In dust behind their tread They see with living eyes How long they have been dead.
Text Authorship:
- by Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918) [author's text not yet checked 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 Ian Venables (b. 1955), "Through these pale cold days", op. 46 no. 3 (2016) [ voice, viola and piano ], from Through These Pale Cold Days, no. 3, Novello and Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-02-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 60