by John Collings Squire, Sir (1884 - 1958)
Epitaph in old mode
Language: English
The leaves fall gently on the grass, And all the willow trees, and poplar trees, and elder trees, That bend above her where she sleeps, O all the willow trees, the willow trees Breathe sighs upon her tomb. O pause and pity, as you pass, She loved so tenderly, so quietly, so hopelessly; And sometimes comes one here and weeps: She loved so tenderly, so tenderly, And never told them whom.
Authorship:
- by John Collings Squire, Sir (1884 - 1958), "Epitaph in old mode", appears in Poems, second series, first published 1922 [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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Epitaph in old mode", published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from A Second Volume of Ten Songs, no. 5, London: Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
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Line count: 10
Word count: 71