by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Now dreary dawns the eastern light
Language: English
Now dreary dawns the eastern light, And fall of eve is drear, And cold the poor man lies at night, And so goes out the year. Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small To think that many another lad Has had no luck at all.
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), appears in Last Poems, no. 28, first published 1922 [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 Irwin Heilner (b. 1908), "Now dreary dawns the eastern light", copyright © 1955. [medium voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Leslie Russell , "Now dreary dawns the eastern light", 1973 [soprano or tenor and piano], from The Ludlow Cycle [text not verified]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "Now dreary dawns the eastern light" [baritone and piano] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-18
Line count: 8
Word count: 49