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by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)

The night is darkening round me
Language: English 
The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow,
And the storm is fast descending
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds upon clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes here below
But nothing here can move me;
I cannot, I will not go.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), "The night is darkening round me", appears in Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Now for the First Time Printed, first published 1902 [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 Pamela Harrison (1915 - 1990), "The night is darknening round me", 1954 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from The Lonely Landscape [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Lothar Klein (b. 1932), "The night is darkening round me", 1966 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Melancholy Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "The night is darkening round me", op. 70 (1983) [ alto or baritone or TTBB chorus with piano and/or suspended cymbal ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "A spell", op. 24 no. 12 (1977), from The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Frederick Piket (1903 - 1974), "Spell", published 1957 [ three-part chorus a cappella ], from The Speaking Silence [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Victoria Brago

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 67

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