by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
There will be stars
Language: English
There will be stars over the place forever; Though the house we loved and the street we loved are lost, Every time the earth circles her orbit On the night the autumn equinox is crossed, Two stars we knew, poised on the peak of midnight Will reach their zenith; stillness will be deep; There will be stars over the place forever, There will be stars forever, while we sleep.
Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Dark of The Moon, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1926, page 21.
Text Authorship:
- by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "There will be stars", appears in Dark of the Moon, in There will be stars, first published 1926 [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 John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "There will be stars", 1951?, published 1953 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin Earle Ferguson (b. 1910), "There will be stars" [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Stanley Smith (1877 - 1949), "There will be stars", op. 52 no. 2, published 1927 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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