Now close the windows and hush all the fields; If the trees must, let them silently toss; No bird is singing now, and if there is, Be it my loss. It will be long ere the marshes resume, It will be long ere the earliest bird: So close the windows and not hear the wind, But see all wind-stirred.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), "Now close the windows", appears in A Boy's Will, first published 382.60 [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 Andrea Clearfield (b. 1960), "Be it my loss", subtitle: "It is time to make an end of speaking", first performed 2013 [ mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano ], from The Drift of Things; Winter Songs, no. 9, Self-published, Angelfire Press ; in Part III, "Einsamkeit (Loneliness/Solitude)" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961), "Now Close The Windows", op. 104 no. 3 (2007) [ baritone and piano ], from Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bain Murray (b. 1926), "Now close the windows" [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2004-02-09
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