June twilight (Masefield, set by R. Clarke, R. Agnew, E. Martin, P. Wishart) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The twilight comes;
the sun dips down and sets,
The boys have done
play at the nets.

In a warm golden glow
The woods are steeped.
The shadows grow;
The bat has cheeped.

Sweet smells the new-mown hay;
The mowers pass
Home, each his way,
through the grass.

The night-wind stirs the fern,
A night-jar spins;
The windows burn
In the inns.

Dusky it grows. The moon! The dews descend.
Love, can this beauty in our hearts end?

First published in Speaker, June 1904

Authorship

John Masefield (1878-1967)

Ballads and Poems

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

Roy Ewing Agnew (1893-1944)

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)

Easthope Martin (-1925)

Five Poems by John Masefield

Peter Wishart (1921-1984)

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