Evening (O'Sullivan, set by E. Moeran) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


I will go out and meet the evening hours 
And greet them one by one as friend greets friend, 
Where many a tall poplar summit towers 
On summit, shrines of quietness that send 
Their silence through the blue air like a wreath 
Of sacrificial flame unwavering 
In the deep evening stillness, when no breath 
Sets the faint tendrils floating on light wing 
Over the long dim fields mist-islanded.
I will go out and meet them one by one,
And learn the things old times have left unsaid,
And read the secrets of an age long gone,
And out of twilight and the darkening plain
Build up all that old quiet world again.

Authorship

Seumas O'Sullivan (1879-1958)

The Earth-Lover and Other Poems

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950)

Six Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan

Date added to the website: 2009-02-03.

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