by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
The rainy Pleiads wester
Language: English
The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone. The rainy Pleiads wester And seek beyond the sea The head that I shall dream of, And 'twill not dream of me.
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Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in More Poems, no. 11, first published 1936 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "The rainy Pleiads", c1965/70. [text not verified]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "The rainy Pleiads wester" [baritone and piano] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-12-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 39