When cats run home and light is come (Tennyson) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

When cats run home and light is come

Language: English

Available translation(s): GER

When cats run home and light is come
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.

When merry milkmaids click the latch,
And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
Twice or thrice his round-e-lay;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.

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Authorship

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "Song -- The owl", appears in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, first published 1830 [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 Herbert Kennedy Andrews (1904 - 1965), "When cats run home", published 1945 [high voice and piano], from Two Songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Johan Backer-Lunde (1874 - 1958), "The owl", op. 42 no. 2 [voice and orchestra] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Seymour Barab (1921 - 2014), "The owl", copyright © 1979 [soprano or tenor, recorder, and guitar], from Bagatelles, no. 7, New York : Galaxy Music [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 - 2012), "The owl", published 1966 [voice or unison chorus and piano], from The Aviary, no. 2 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by William Richard Bexfield (1824 - 1853), "The owl", published 1881 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by A. (Alfred or Arthur?) Herbert Brewer (1865 - 1928), "When cats run home", published 1927 [SS chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Alan Bullard (b. 1947), "The owl", 1985, first performed 1985 [baritone and piano], from Three Bird Songs, no. 1 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Ernest Bullock, Sir (1890 - 1979), "When cats run home", published 1961 [SS chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "The owl", published 1962 [SAB chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Frank Chapple , "The owl", published 1928 [SS chorus or SA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979), "The owl", 1909? [SATB chorus a cappella] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906 - 2005), "The owl", 1956, published 1963 [soprano or tenor, horn, and piano], from Nocturnes, no. 4 [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877 - 1946), "The owl", published 1915 [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Theodora Dutton , "To the owl", published <<1940 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Christopher Montague Edmunds (1899 - 1990), "The owl", published 1930 [SS chorus a cappella] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Nicolas Flagello (b. 1928), "The owl", published 1964 [bass-baritone and chamber orchestra or piano], from The Land [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Percival Garratt (1877 - 1953), "The owl", published 1923 [2-part chorus of medium-high voices and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by R. A. Gatty , "The owl", published 1869 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (1868 - 1928), "The owl", published 1910 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Joseph Groocock , "The owl", published c1953 [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Marjorie Helyer , "When cats run home", published 1957 [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Francis Alan Jackson (b. 1917), "The owl", published 1949 [SSA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob (1895 - 1984), "When cats run home", published 1938 [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Roger Parks Jones (b. 1944), "The white owl" [SATB chorus and instrumental ensemble] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Louis Lavater (1867 - 1953), "The white owl", published 1933 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Cuthbert Edward Osmond (1904 - 1937), "The owl", published 1948 [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "The owl", published 1909 [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Montague Fawcett Phillips (1885 - 1969), "The owl", published 1939 [SS chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Henry Hugo Pierson (1816 - 1873), "The white owl", published 1875 [voice and piano], also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Arthur John Pritchard , "When cats run home", published 1947 [TTBB chorus a cappella] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Daniel Protheroe (1866 - 1934), "The owl", published 1917 [voices and piano], from Fifth Year Music [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by J. W. Sidebotham , "The owl", published <<1892 [chorus] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Edward Silas (1827 - 1909), "The owl", published 1867 [SATB chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Harold Hinchcliffe Sykes , "The owl", published 1966 [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Eric Harding Thiman (1900 - 1975), "When cats run home", published 1930 [2-part chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Vally Weigl, née Pick (c1894 - 1982), "The owl", published 1962-3 [medium voice and piano], from Songs for a child [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karoline (or Caroline) Wilhelmine Leonhardt (1811 - 1899) ; composed by Henry Hugo Pierson.

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 78