by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
White in the moon the long road lies
Language: English
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight though reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 36, first published 1896 [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 Geoffrey Allen (b. 1927), "White in the moon ", op. 10 no. 6 (1995) [ tenor and piano ], from Bredon Hill : eight songs for tenor voice and piano to poems of A. E. Housman, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "White in the moon", from Housman Songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Brown , "White in the moon" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "The long road", 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "White in the moon", 1934, published 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Two songs [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Oscar J. Fox (1879 - 1961), "White in the moon the long road lies", published 1932 [ SSA chorus or TTBB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Parks Grant (b. 1910), "White in the moon the long road lies", op. 7 (A Shropshire Lad) no. ? [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "White in the moon", 1990 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "White in the moon the long road lies", from A Shropshire Lad, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Henry George Ley (1887 - 1962), "White in the moon", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "Exile", published 1914, from A Shropshire Lad [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugh Priestley-Smith , "White in the moon the long road lies", published <<1943 [ voice and piano ], from From the West Country [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "White in the moon the long road lies", op. 137 (1947) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "White in the Moon", op. 569 (1960) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "White in the moon the long road lies", 1904, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from A Shropshire Lad, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Freda Mary Swain (1902 - 1985), "White in the moon the long road lies", 1925, rev. 1973 [ tenor and piano ensemble ], from The Lost Heart [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. Kendal Taylor , "White in the moon", published 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "White in the moon the long road lies" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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