by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away
Language: English
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night's decay Ushers in a drearier day.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title, appears in The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë, first published 1910 [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 Ronald A. Beckett , "Fall, leaves, fall", 2012 [ voice, piano, oboe, clarinet ], from Reflection: Three Poems by Emily Brontë, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Donald Bohlen (b. 1934), "Fall, leaves, fall", 1997 [ soprano, clarinet, and piano ], from Five Movements: Songs and Doubles, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Robert) Houston Bright (1916 - 1970), "Fall, Leaves, Fall", published 1967 [ SSAATTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Robert) Houston Bright (1916 - 1970), "Fall, Leaves, Fall", published 1967 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ], from Trilogy for Women's Voices [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christopher Roland Brown (b. 1943), "Fall, leaves, fall", op. 32 no. ? (1971), published 1973 [ SSATBB vocal sextet and instrumental ensemble (oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, violoncello, and piano) ], from The Snows of Winter [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906 - 2005), "Fall, leaves, fall", published 1960 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pamela Harrison (1915 - 1990), "Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away", 1954 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from The Lonely Landscape [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "Fall, leaves, fall" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Stoker (b. 1938), "Autumn", 1957, first performed 1957 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolph T. Werther (1896 - 1986), "Fall, leaves, fall", 1945-70? [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 46