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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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]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-04
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