by Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)
The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold
Language: English
The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold, And fair and bright the rivers run; These are but streams of winter cold, And painted mists that quench the sun. In secret boughs no sweet birds sing, In secret boughs no bird can shroud; These are but leaves that take to wing, And wintry winds that pipe so loud. 'Tis not trees' shade, but cloudy glooms That on the cheerless valleys fall, The flowers are in their grassy tombs, And tears of dew are on them all.
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Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), "Autumn", appears in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems, first published 1827 [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 Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "Autumn", op. 15 (Five Songs) no. 4 (1901), published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Autumn", op. 10 (Three Poems of Thomas Hood) no. 2, published 1903 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walter Cecil Macfarren (1826 - 1905), "Autumn", published c1872 [ TTBB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Autumn", 1865, published 1867 [ high voice and orchestra or piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Montague Fawcett Phillips (1885 - 1969), "The autumn skies are flush'd with gold", published c1939 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 85