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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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 against a primary source]
- 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 against a primary source]
- 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 against a primary source]
- 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 against a primary source]
Researcher for this text: Victoria Brago
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 67