She weeps over Rahoon | Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly...

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling,
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling,
At grey moonrise.

Love, hear thou
How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered and the dark rain falling,
Then as now.

Dark too our hearts, O love, shall lie and cold
As his sad heart has lain
Under the moongrey nettles, the black mould
And muttering rain.

About the headline (FAQ)

First published in Poetry, November 1917

Text Authorship:

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), "She weeps over Rahoon", written 1913, appears in Pomes Penyeach, no. 4 [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 Lorne M. Betts (b. 1918), "Rain on Rahoon falls softly", 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Five Songs (1952) [sung text not yet checked]
by Carlos Botto Vallarino (1923 - 2004), "Rain on Rahoon falls softly", op. 12 no. 2 (1959-60) [ soprano and piano ], from Songs of Love and Solitude (Poemas de amor y soledad), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Brian Boydell (1917 - 2000), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1936 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by David Del Tredici (1937 - 2023), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1958-60, published 1974 [ voice and piano ], from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Vivian Fine (1913 - 2000), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1932, published 1933, first performed 1932 [ mezzo-soprano, 2 violins, viola, and violoncello (string quartet) ], from Four Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1939 [sung text not yet checked]
by Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 - 1984), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1929 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Bill Hopkins (b. 1943), "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1967 [ soprano, bass clarinet, trumpet, viola, and harp ], from Two Poems, no. 1, London, Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
by Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937), "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1933 [ voice and piano ], from The Joyce Book, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jack Marius Jarrett (b. 1934), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1964 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from The Unquiet Heart [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "She weeps over Rahoon", <<1953 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "Rahoon", R. 93 (1947), published 1947 [ alto and piano ], Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
by Laughton W. Patrick (b. 1934), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1959 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ronald Perera (b. 1941), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1985 [ high voice and piano ], from Sleep Now, no. 3, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "She Weeps Over Rahoon", op. 250 (1950) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Alfred Reed (b. 1921), "Rahoon", published 1965 [ clarinet and band or woodwinds ], rhapsody [sung text not yet checked]
by William Strickland (b. 1914), "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1961 [ medium-high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Harold Triggs , "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1935 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller

This text was added to the website: 2005-01-13
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