by Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
How beautiful is night!
Language: English
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory yonder Moon divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert-circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled [with]1 the sky. How beautiful is night!
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Southey (1774 - 1843), appears in Thalaba the Destroyer, first published 1800 [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 George Crumb (1929 - 2022), "Night" [ voice and piano ], from Three Early Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 - 1984), "How beautiful is night", 1918 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Gildersleeve Vardell (1893 - 1962), "Nocturne" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
Line count: 10
Word count: 55