by Maurice Denton (1915 - 1948)
Babylon
Language: English
No branch, Nor breath to move the branch; The hanging trees of Babylon Are still. No night, Nor noon to turn to night, The words are frozen in the mouth They fill.
Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Denton (1915 - 1948) [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 Howard Ferguson (1908 - 1999), "Babylon", from Discovery, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website: 2004-07-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 32