by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
Dusk
Language: English
The city's street, a roaring blackened stream Walled in by granite, thro' whose thousand eyes A thousand yellow lights begin to gleam, And over all the pale untroubled skies.
Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Helen of Troy ; And Other Poems, New York and London : G. P. Putnam's sons, 1911, p. 90
Text Authorship:
- by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "Dusk", appears in Helen of Troy and Other Poems, in 8. Sonnets and Lyrics, in 15. City Vignettes, no. 2 [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 Misty L. Dupuis (b. 1972), "Dusk", first performed 2019 [ mixed chorus ], from City Vignettes, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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