by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
The sloe was lost in flower
Language: English
The sloe was lost in flower, The April elm was dim; That was the lover's hour, The hour for lies and him. If thorns are all the bower, If north winds freeze the fir, Why, 'tis another's hour, The hour for truth and her.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Last Poems, no. 22, 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 Raymond Wilding-White (1922 - 2001), "The sloe was lost in flower", published 1969 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Housman Poems, from Contemporary Art Song Album, Volume I [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 44