by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
The deserted house
Language: English
There's no smoke in the chimney, And the rain beats on the floor; There's no glass in the window, There's no wood in the door; The heather grows behind the house, And the sand lies before. No hand hath trained the ivy, The walls are gray and bare; The boats upon the sea sail by, Nor ever tarry there. No beast of the field comes nigh, Nor any bird of the air.
Text Authorship:
- by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907), "The deserted house", appears in Poems, no. 200, first published 1907 [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 Harold Hinchcliffe Sykes , "The deserted house", published 1968. [SS chorus and piano] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 72