by James Stephens (1882 - 1950)
The white window
Language: English
The moon comes every night to peep Through the window where I lie, And I pretend to be asleep ; But I watch the moon as it goes by, And it never makes a sound. It stands and stares, and then it goes To the house that's next to me, Stealing on its tippy-toes, To peep at folk asleep maybe ; And it never makes a sound.
Authorship:
- by James Stephens (1882 - 1950), "The white window", appears in The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin, first published 1915 [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 white window", c1955 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Rippiner Heath (b. 1887), "The white window", published 1920 [ voice and piano ], from The Enchanted Hour [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walter Byron Mourant (1910 - 1995), "The white window" [ alto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-01-26
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Word count: 67