by Evelyn Scott (1893 - 1963)
Lights at Night
Language: English
In the city,
Storms of light
Surge against the clouds,
Pushing up the darkness.
In the country,
Is the faint pressure of oil lamps,
That sputter,
Smothered with earth—
Extinguished in silence.
Confirmed with Evelyn Scott, Precipitations, The Project Gutenberg, 2003
Text Authorship:
- by Evelyn Scott (1893 - 1963), "Lights at Night", appears in Precipitations, first published 1920, copyright status unknown [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 Rachel Devore Fogarty , "Lights at Night", 2017 [ mezzo-soprano, flute and harp ], from Manhattan: The Unpeopled City and Crowds, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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