by William Sharp (1855 - 1905)
The slow heave of the sleeping sea
Language: English
(Towards evening)
The slow heave of the sleeping sea
With pulse-like motion swells and falls,
And drowsily a stray gull calls
The very wail of melancholy;
All day the moveless mist has slept
On the same bosom east winds swept:
No breath of change in the grey mist,
Save just a dream of amethyst.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), "A dead calm and mist", appears in Earth's Voices, first published 1884 [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 Arthur Benjamin (1893 - 1960), "Calm sea and mist", published 1925 [ medium voice and piano or string quartet ], from Three Impressions [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "A dead calm and mist", op. 68 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set II) no. 2 (1926) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-17
Line count: 9
Word count: 52