A night thought (Moore, set by C. Ives) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 How oft a cloud, with envious veil,
 Obscures yon bashful light
 Which seems so modestly to steal
 Along the waste of night!
 ... thus the world's obtrusive wrongs
 Obscure, with malice keen,
 Some timid heart which only longs
 To live and die unseen.

Authorship

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

The Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little, Esq.

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

Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954)

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