by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
Peace at noon
Language: English
Here, there is peace, cool peace Upon these heights, beneath these trees Almost the peace of sleep or death To wearying brain, to lab'ring breath Here there is peace at last A sweet forgetting of the past There is no future here, nor aught Save this soft healing pause of thought.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945), "Peace at noon", appears in Silhouettes, first published 1892 [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 Edward Burlingame Hill (1872 - 1960), "Peace at noon", published <<1940. [text not verified]
- by Robert William Manton (1894 - 1967), "Peace at noon" [medium voice and piano], from Four songs, no. 3. [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-07-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 51