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by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914)

More dim than waning moon
Language: English 
More dim than waning moon
Thy face, more faint
Than is the falling wind
Thy voice, yet do
Thine eyes most strangely glow,
Thou ghost ... thou ghost.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914) [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 Harrison Kerr (1897 - 1978), "Old love", from Six Songs for Voice and Piano to Poems by Adelaide Crapsey, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Charles Sacco (1905 - 1987), "More Dim than Waning Moon", published 1943 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hugo Weisgall (1912 - 1997), "Old love", op. 1 no. 1, published 1940 [ soprano, piano ], from Four Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Mimi Ezust

This text was added to the website: 2004-02-28
Line count: 6
Word count: 27

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