by John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
Silent are the woods, and the dim green...
Language: English
Silent are the woods, and the dim green boughs are Hushed in the twilight: yonder, in the path through The apple orchard, is a tired plough-boy Calling the cows home. A bright white star blinks, the pale moon rounds, but Still the red, lurid wreckage of the sunset Smoulders in smoky fire, and burns on The misty hill-tops. Ghostly it grows, and darker, the burning Fades into smoke, and now the gusty oaks are A silent army of phantoms thronging A land of shadows.
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Text Authorship:
- by John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "On Eastnor Knoll", appears in Salt Water Ballads, first published 1902 [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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "On Eastnor Knoll", 1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. Frederick Keel (1871 - 1954), "On Eastnor Knoll", published 1926 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "On Eastnor Knoll", op. 12 (1943) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reginald Redman (1892 - 1972), "A land of shadows", published <<1957 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ian Venables (b. 1955), "On Eastnor Knoll", op. 41 (Songs) no. 7 (2016) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Barry Lloyd Vercoe (b. 1937), "On Eastnor Knoll" [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-12-31
Line count: 12
Word count: 84