Slowly, silently, now the moon

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;

One by one the casements catch 
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;

A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) , from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, published 1913

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

by Violet Balestreri Archer (1913-) , "Silver", <<1952. [voice and piano]
by Gary Bachlund , "Silver", 1985 [mezzo soprano and piano], from Three Poems of Walter de la Mare, no. 3.
by Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) , "Silver", published 1948 [medium voice and piano], from Five Songs
by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) , "Silver", published 1969 [voice and piano], from Tit for tat, no. 3.
by Walter Joseph Buczynski (1933-) , "Silver", 1955 [alto and piano], from Four Poems of Walter de la Mare, no. ?
by Arthur Butterworth (1923-) , "Silver", 1948 [soprano and piano], from Four Nocturnal Songs
by John Woods Duke (1899-1984) , "Silver", published 1961. [voice and piano]
by John Emeléus , "Silver", published 1962. [unison voices and piano]
by Harry Farjeon (1878-1948) , "Silver", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from The Little Green Orchard
by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) , "Silver", op. 30 no. 2 (1920), published 1922.
by Harold Greenhill , "Silver", published 1934. [two-part children's or women's chorus and piano]
by Colin Hand (1929-) , "Silver", published 1955. [unison voices and piano]
by Victor Harris (1869-1943) , "Silver", published 1922. [voice and piano]
by Christian Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901-1947) , "Silver", published 1928.
by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910-1998) , "Silver", from Four songs, no. 2.
by John G. Koch (1928-) , "Silver", published 1965.
by Anthony Francis Dominic Milner (1925-) , "Silver", published 1959 [SSA chorus a cappella], from Peacock Pie, no. ?
by Reginald Redman (1892-1972) , "Silver", published 1967. [voice and piano]
by Annetta Rosser (1938-1998) , "Silver", published 1997, from Winter Songs, no. 4.
by Neil Saunders (1918-) , "Silver", published 1963. [SATB a cappella]
by Arthur Shepherd (1880-1958) , "Slowly, silently, now the moon" [SSA and piano]
by Edwin M. Smith (1938-) , "Silver", published 1951. [SSA and piano]
by William S. Vosper (1932-) , "Silver", 1955. [medium voice and piano]
by Vally Weigl, née Pick (1894?89?-1982) , "Silver" [medium voice, recorder, and piano]
by Douglas Young (1947-) , "Silver", 1967, published 1973, rev. 1969 [cantata: soprano, male speaker, chamber orchestra], note: choreographed for ballet in 1969 by Geoffrey Cawley
by Douglas William Alfred Zanders (1918-) , "Silver", 1952. [SATB a cappella]

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