by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972)
Across the door
Language: English
The fiddles were playing and playing, The couples were out on the floor; From converse and dancing he drew me, And across the door. Ah! strange were the dim, wide meadows, And strange was the cloud-strewn sky, And strange in the meadows the corncrakes, And they making cry! The hawthorn bloom was by us, Around us the breath of the south White hawthorn, strange in the night-time His kiss on my mouth!
Text Authorship:
- by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), "Across the door", appears in Wild Earth, first published 1907 [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 Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "Across the door", published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Five Irish Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 72