by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Oh on my breast in days hereafter
Language: English
Oh on my breast in days hereafter
Light the earth should lie,
Such weight to bear is now the air,
So heavy hangs the sky.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Additional Poems, no. 10, first published 1939 [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 Richard Sisson (b. 1957), "So heavy hangs the sky" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-03-04
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Word count: 25