by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
Thick is the darkness
Language: English
Thick is the darkness -- Sunward, O, sunward! Rough is the highway -- Onward, still onward! Dawn harbours surely East of the shadows. Facing us somewhere Spread the sweet meadows. Upward and forward! Time will restore us: Light is above us, Rest is before us.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in A Book of Verses, first published 1888 [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Thick is the darkness", op. 16 (Seven songs) no. 3 (1913) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Spencer Johnson (1883 - ?), "Thick is the darkness", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis Alexander Korbay (1846 - 1913), "Thick is the darkness", <<1913 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Liddle (1864? - 1951), "Onward", published 1918 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-12-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 43