by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
It is autumn; not without
Language: English
It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
Birds are darting through the air,
Singing, building without rest;
Life is stirring everywhere,
Save within my lonely breast.
There is silence: the dead leaves
Fall and rustle and are still;
Beats no flail upon the sheaves,
Comes no murmur from the mill.
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Text Authorship:
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Autumn within", appears in In the Harbor: Ultima Thule - Part II, first published 1882 [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 Samuel C. Colburn , "Autumn within", published 1907. [medium voice, piano] [text not verified]
- by Carl Deis (1883 - 1960), "The waning", published 1920 [low voice and piano], from Two Plaints [text not verified]
- by Joseph Eidson , "Autumn within", 2013 [counter-tenor (or mezzo-soprano), A & B-flat clarinet, piano], from Birds of Passage, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2005-03-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 67