by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
The darkened woods
Language: English
Woods, you need not frown on me; Spectral trees that so dolefully Shake your heads in the dreary sky, You need not mock so bitterly.
Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) [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 John Mitchell (b. 1941), "The darkened woods", op. 24 no. 4 (1977), from The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky, no. 4. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Victoria Brago
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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