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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"

Text 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 ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nicholas Marshall (b. 1942), "The falling of the leaves" [ high voice, treble recorder, violoncello, harpsichord ], from The falling of the leaves [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Dorothy Parke , "The falling of the leaves", 1963 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Falling of the Leaves", op. 30 (1944) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Falling Of The Leaves", op. 622 (1962) [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-01-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 70

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