by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight
Language: English
'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But most where trees are sending Their breezy boughs on high, Or stooping low are lending A shelter from the sky. And there in those wild bowers A lovely form is laid; Green grass and dew-steeped flowers Wave gently round her head.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title, appears in The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë, first published 1910 [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 Pamela Harrison (1915 - 1990), "'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight", 1954 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from The Lonely Landscape [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lothar Klein (b. 1932), "'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight", 1966 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Melancholy Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Baron Pitfield (1903 - 1999), "Requiem -- Nocturne", published 1937 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-12-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 62