by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
All hushed and still within the house
Language: English
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All hushed and still within the house Without - all [wind and driving rain]1. But something whispers to my mind Through [rain and through the]2 wailing wind - - Never again, Never again? Why not again? Memory has power as real as [thine]3.
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1 Fisk: "storm and driving wind"
2 Fisk: "snow and storm and"
3 Fisk: "time"
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title, from 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 Christopher Roland Brown (b. 1943), "All hushed and still within the house", 1974 [ counter-tenor, alto or baritone, and chamber orchestra ], from Soliloquy [sung text not yet checked]
- by Terry Fisk , no title, published 2002, from Wuthering Heights, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk
This text was added to the website: 2004-02-05
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