by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
The battle has passed from the height
Language: English
The battle has passed from the height And still did evening fall While heaven with its hosts of night Gloriously canopied all The dead around were sleeping On heath and granite grey And the dying their last watch were keeping In the closing of the day.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title, appears in Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Now for the First Time Printed, first published 1902 [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 Pamela Harrison (1915 - 1990), "The battle has passed from the height", 1954 [soprano or tenor and piano], from The Lonely Landscape [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Robert Long , "A lonely landscape", published 1961 [SSA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "La battaglia aveva abbandonato le alture", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
This text was added to the website: 2008-01-19
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Word count: 46