by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
The valley of the black pig
Language: English
The dew drops slowly and dreams gather
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First published in Savoy, April 1896 as one of "Two Poems Concerning Peasant Visionaries"
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "The valley of the black pig"
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 Roderick-Jones (b. 1947), "The valley of the black pig", 1966 [soprano and piano], from The wind among the reeds
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