by Walter James Redfern Turner (1889 - 1946)
Lovely hill torrents are
Language: English
Lovely hill torrents are At cold winterfall; Among the earth's silence they Stonily call. Gone Autumn's pageantry; Through woods all bare With strange, locked voices Shining they stare!
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Modern American and British Poetry. In Two Volumes, Volume 2. British, ed. by Louis Untermeyer. War Department Education Manual, Issue 131, Part 2, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942, page 365.
Text Authorship:
- by Walter James Redfern Turner (1889 - 1946), "Song", first published 1937 [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 Walter James Redfern Turner (1889 - 1946), "Lovely hill-torrents are", published 1937 [ unaccompanied voice ], from Broadside, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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