Song Cycle by Herbert Norman Howells (1892-1983)

?. The sorrows of love

Authorship

by Seumas O'Sullivan (1879-1958) , "The love-gift of sorrow", from Poems, published 1912

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For all my sorrow I have been more glad
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?. The twilight people

Authorship

by Seumas O'Sullivan (1879-1958) , "The twilight people", from The Twilight People, published 1905

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It is a whisper among the hazel bushes ; 
It is a long, low, whispering voice that fills 
With a sad music the bending and swaying rushes ; 
It is a heart-beat deep in the quiet hills. 

Twilight people, why will you still be crying, 
Crying and calling to me out of the trees ? 
For under the quiet grass the wise are lying, 
And all the strong ones are gone over the seas. 

And I am old, and in my heart at your calling 
Only the old dead dreams a-fluttering go ; 
As the wind, the forest wind, in its falling 
Sets the withered leaves fluttering to and fro.

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