by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
The falling of the leaves
Language: English
Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves. The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us patt, ere the season of passion forget us, With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.
Note: first titled "Falling of the leaves"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Authorship
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "The falling of the leaves", appears in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, first published 1889, revised 1895 [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 Allan Blank (b. 1925), "The falling of the leaves" [medium voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Nicholas Marshall (b. 1942), "The falling of the leaves" [high voice, treble recorder, violoncello, harpsichord], from The falling of the leaves [text not verified]
- by Dorothy Parke , "The falling of the leaves", 1963. [voice and piano] [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-01-17
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Word count: 70