by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
The pale stars are gone!
Language: English
Voice of unseen spirits:
The pale stars are gone!
For the sun, their swift shepherd,
To their folds them compelling,
In the depths of the dawn,
Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and they flee
Beyond his blue dwelling,
As fawns flee the leopard.
But where are ye?
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Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title, appears in Prometheus Unbound, Act 4, Scene 1 [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 Creighton Allen (1900 - 1969), "The dawn", published 1954, from Shelley Songs, Cycle of Ten Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-11-24
Line count: 9
Word count: 46