by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Bells in tower at evening toll
Language: English
Bells in tower at evening toll, And the day forsakes the soul; Soon will evening's self be gone And the whispering night come on. Blame not thou the blinded light Nor the whisper of the night: Though the whispering night were still, Yet the heart would counsel ill.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in More Poems, no. 17, first published 1936 [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 Edward Toner Cone (b. 1917), "Bells in the tower at evening toll" [soprano and piano] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-18
Line count: 8
Word count: 48