by Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)
Adlestrop
Language: English
Yes, I remember Adlestrop -- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop -- only the name And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky. And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier. Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Authorship:
- by Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917), "Adlestrop", written 1915 [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 Peter Duffy , "Adlestrop" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Adlestrop", 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Derek Healey (b. 1936), "Adlestrop", op. 97 no. 4 (2005) [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Five Edward Thomas Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Derek Holman (b. 1931), "Adlestrop", first performed 2011 [ high voice and harp ], from Three Songs for High Voice and Harp, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob (1895 - 1984), "Adlestrop" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anthony Payne (b. 1936), "Adlestrop", 1989 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Douglas Gordon Weiland (b. 1954), "Adlestrop", op. 68 (Songs to Poems by Edward Thomas) no. 1 (2023) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2010-05-30
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