The wind was rough which tore
The leaf from its parent tree
The fate was cruel which bore
The withering corpse to me

We wander on we have no rest
It is a dreary way

What shadow is it
That ever moves before [my] eyes
It has a brow of ghostly whiteness

T. Fisk sets lines 1-4

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Note: in the Fisk work, this is sung by Heathcliff

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), "The wind was rough which tore", 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 Terry Fisk , "The wind was rough which tore ", published 2002, lines 1-4 [voice, piano], from Wuthering Heights, no. 28. [
   text verified 1 time
  ]
• by Lothar Klein (b. 1932), "The fallen leaf", 1966 [high voice and viola], from Laments from Gondal [
   text not verified 
  ]

Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk

This text was added to the website: 2004-03-22
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