When to the inward darkness of my mind I bid your face come, not one hue replies Of that curved cheek, no, nor the faint-tinged rose Of lips, nor smile between the mouth and eyes: Only the eyes themselves, past telling, seem To break in beauty in the twilight there, And out of solitude your very ghost Steals through the scarce-seen shadow of your hair.
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Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Twilight", appears in The Fleeting and Other Poems, first published 1933 [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 Walter Joseph Buczynski (b. 1933), "Twilight", 1955 [ voice and piano ], from Four Poems of Walter de la Mare [sung text not yet checked]
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