by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
The night is freezing fast
Language: English
The night is freezing fast,
To-morrow comes December;
And winterfalls of old
Are with me from the past;
And chiefly I remember
How Dick would hate the cold.
Fall, winter, fall; for he,
Prompt hand and headpiece clever,
Has woven a winter robe,
And made of earth and sea
His overcoat for ever,
And wears the turning globe.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Last Poems, no. 20, first published 1922 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Herbert Kennedy Andrews (1904 - 1965), "The night is freezing fast", published 1945 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Two Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Antony Garlick (b. 1927), "The night is freezing fast", published 1967 [ 2-part chorus of equal voices a cappella ], from Eleven Canzonets, canzonet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "The night is freezing fast", 1996, first performed 1996 [ mezzo-soprano and strings ], from On the Road to Christmas, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by David M. Hollister (b. 1929), "The night is freezing fast" [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Winter madrigals, madrigal [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margarita L. Merriman (b. 1927), "The night is freezing fast" [ alto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Night Is Freezing Fast", op. 603 (1961) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie Russell , "The night is freezing fast", 1973 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from The Ludlow Cycle [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "The night is freezing fast " [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-18
Line count: 12
Word count: 58