by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
A thunderstorm in town
Language: English
She wore a new "terra cotta" dress,
And we stayed because of the pelting storm,
Within the hansom's dry recess,
Though the horse had stopped; yea, motionless
We sat on, snug and warm.
Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain
And the glass that had screened our forms before
Flew up, and out she sprang to her door:
I should have kissed her if the rain
Had lasted a minute more.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), appears in Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces, first published 1914 [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 Garth Baxter (b. 1946), "A thunderstorm in town" [ voice and piano ], from Four Views of Love, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charlotte Bray , "A thunderstorm in town", 2010 [ soprano and piano ], from Midnight closes, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Garth Baxter
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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