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by Harold Monro (1879 - 1932)

Here is the soundless cypress on the...
Language: English 
Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:
It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond
Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond
Stares. And you sing, you sing.
 
That star-enchanted song falls through the air
From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,
Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;
And all the night you sing.
 
My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee
As all night long I listen, and my brain
Receives your song; then loses it again
In moonlight on the lawn.
 
Now is your voice a marble high and white,
Then like a mist on fields of paradise,
Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,
Then breaks, and it is dawn.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Harold Monro (1879 - 1932), "The nightingale near the house", appears in Real Property, first published 1922 [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 Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880 - 1956), "The nightingale near the house", published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jean Coulthard (1908 - 2000), "The nightingale", 1960 [ baritone, string quartet, and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Elaine Hugh-Jones (b. 1927), "The nightingale near the house", 2001 [ voice and piano ], from Two Night Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2009-02-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 119

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