by Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911 - 1968)
And I thought you beside me
Language: English
And I thought you beside me How rare and how desperate And your eyes were wet And your face as still As the body of a leveret On a tranced hill But my thought belied me And you were not there But only the trees that shook, Only a storm that broke Through the dark air.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Brian Elias (b. 1948), "And I thought you beside me", 1982 [ tenor and piano ], from At the Edge of Time, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-24
Line count: 11
Word count: 56