The waning moon
Language:
English
And, like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky East,
A white and shapeless mass...
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
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 by Jack Hamilton Beeson (1921-)
, "The moon", 1952, rev. 1959, 1995, first performed 1958 [high voice and piano], from Six Lyrics, no. 4.
by Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906-2005)
, "The moon", alternate title: "To the moon: And like a dying lady", 1956, published 1963 [soprano, horn, and piano], from Nocturnes, no. 1.
by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
, "The moon"
by Bernard Rands (1935-)
, "The waning moon", 1991, stanza 1, from Canti lunatici, no. 14.
by Alexander Lang Steinert (1900-1982)
, "The waning moon", published 1932, from Three Poems by Shelley, no. 1.
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