Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling (Joyce, set by Lorne M. Betts, Carlos Botto Vallarino, Brian Boydell, David Del Tredici, Vivian Fine, Miriam Gideon, Muriel Emily Herbert, Bill Hopkins, Herbert Hughes, Jack Marius Jarrett, Sergius Kagen, Ernest John Moeran, Laughton W. Patrick, Alfred Reed, William Strickland, Harold Triggs) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly...

Language: English

Available translation(s): 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

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) [
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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. [
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by Brian Boydell (1917 - 2000), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1936. [low voice and piano] [
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by David Del Tredici (b. 1937), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1958-60, published 1974 [voice and piano], from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. 2. [
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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. [
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by Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1939. [
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by Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 - 1984), "She weeps over Rahoon" [voice and piano] [
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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 [
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by Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937), "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1933 [voice and piano], from The Joyce Book, no. 4. [
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by Jack Marius Jarrett (b. 1934), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1964 [soprano or tenor and piano], from The Unquiet Heart [
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by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "She weeps over Rahoon", <<1953. [voice and piano] [
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by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "Rahoon", R. 93 (1947), published 1947 [alto and piano], Oxford University Press [
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by Laughton W. Patrick (b. 1934), "She weeps over Rahoon", 1959. [medium voice and piano] [
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by Alfred Reed (b. 1921), "Rahoon", published 1965 [clarinet and band or woodwinds], rhapsody [
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by William Strickland (b. 1914), "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1961. [medium-high voice and piano] [
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by Harold Triggs , "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1935. [voice and piano] [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this text: Barbara Miller

Text added to the website: 2005-01-13 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:12
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