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Dark hills at evening in the west, Where sunset hovers like a sound Of golden horns that sang to rest Old bones of warriors under ground, Far now from all the bannered ways Where flash the legions of the sun, You fade--as if the last of days Were fading, and all wars were done.
Authorship
- by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935), "The dark hills", appears in The Three Taverns, first published 1920 [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 Samuel Hans Adler (b. 1928), "The dark hills", published 1968 [ SSAA chorus and piano ], from In Nature's Ebb and Flow [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie R. Bassett (b. 1923), "The dark hills", 1953, published c1957, first performed 1953 [ high voice and piano ], from Four Songs, no. 3, NY : American Composers Alliance [sung text not yet checked]
- by Keith Warren Bissell (b. 1912), "The dark hills", published 1958 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilson Coker (b. 1928), "The dark hills", published 1966 [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "The dark hills", 1949 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "The dark hills", 1966 [ medium voice and piano ], SOuthern/Texas [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Amadeus Pisk (1893 - 1990), "The dark hills", published 1946 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Russell , "The dark hills" [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louise Souther , "The dark hills", published 1937 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ralph R. Travis , "The dark hills", published 1936 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wintter Haynes Watts (1884 - 1962), "The dark hills", published 1924 [ low voice and piano ], from Three Songs for Low Voice [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Die dunklen Hügel", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 54
Auf dunklen Hügeln glüht verklärt die untergeh'nde Sonn' wie Klang der gold'nen Hörner: Ruhgesang für Kriegerknochen in der Erd'. Weit weg von all der Fahnen Sieg, die sonnenfunkelnd Heeren wehn, verbleichst du - als wär' im Vergeh'n der letzte Tag, der letzte Krieg.
Authorship
- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2008 by Walter A. Aue, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in English by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935), "The dark hills", appears in The Three Taverns, first published 1920
This text was added to the website: 2008-06-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 43