by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Twilight
Language: English
The soft voluptuous opiate shades, The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd -- (I too will soon be gone, dispell'd,) A haze -- nirwana -- rest and night -- oblivion.
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Twilight", appears in Leaves of Grass [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Twilight", c1926-28, published 1930 [ voice and piano ], from Songs at Parting: A Selection of Walt Whitman's Poems, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Twilight", published 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Ten Songs by Ernst Bacon, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thade Jude Correa (b. 1983), "Twilight", published 2012 [ high voice and piano ], from Whitman Songs, no. 4, Alliance Publications [sung text not yet checked]
- by Russell Platt (b. 1965), "Twilight", copyright © 2006 [ soprano, tenor, baritone and piano ], from cantata From Noon to Starry Night - A Walt Whitman Cantata, no. 6, Fort Tryon Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leif Segerstam (b. 1944), "Twilight", published 1967 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Leaves of Grass, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-05-30
Line count: 4
Word count: 27