Night (Schaffer, set by A. Copland) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 My heart is placid as the lake
 Which softly flows 'neath starlit skies.
 And, as I walk, faint melodies of night,
 Of things but half awake,
 Stand soothing to its very deeps;
 It thrills and starts while mankind sleeps.
 The gentle murmur of the lake
 Is silvered by a fountain's play.
 A nightbird sings its tuneful lay
 Full of the night's vast joy and ache.
 A low wind sighs thru ghostly trees
 Which shiver in the dancing breeze.

Authorship

Aaron Schaffer (1893-1957)

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

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

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