Lights Out (Thomas, set by I. Gurney) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 I have come to the borders of sleep,
 The unfathomable deep
 Forest where all must lose
 Their way, however straight,
 Or winding, soon or late;
 They cannot choose.
 Here love ends,
 Despair, ambition ends,
 All pleasure and all trouble,
 Although most sweet or bitter
 Here ends in sleep that is sweeter
 Than tasks most noble.
 There is not any book
 Or face of dearest look
 That I would not turn from now
 To go into the unknown
 I must enter and leave alone
 I know not how.

Input by David Kenneth Smith

Authorship

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

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

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

Lights Out

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