Look down, fair moon

Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene,
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple;
On the dead, on their backs, with [their]1 arms toss'd wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.

by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) , "Look down, fair moon", from Leaves of Grass

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

by Daron Aric Hagen (1961-) , "Look down, fair moon", from Echo's songs, no. 10.
by James R. Hanna (1922-) , "Look down, fair moon", published 1962 [low voice, piano], from War
by John M. Klein (1915-) , "Look down, fair moon", published 1949. [SATB chorus, piano]
by Henry Mollicone (1946-) , "Look down, fair moon" [soprano, piano]
by Charles Naginski (1909-1940) , "Look down, fair moon", published 1942. [medium voice, piano]
by Bernard Rands (1935-) , "Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene", 1991, from Canti lunatici, no. 9.
by Ned Rorem (1923-) , "Look down, fair moon", from 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman, no. 4.
by Ned Rorem (1923-) , "Look down, fair moon", from Five Poems of Walt Whitman, no. 3.
by William Howard Schuman (1910-1992) , "Look down, fair moon", published 1943 [cantata: mixed chorus, two pianos or orchestra], from A Free Song
by Harry Somers (1925-) , "Look down fair moon", from 3 Songs to words by Walt Whitman, no. 1.
by Joelle Wallach (1946-) , "Look down, fair moon", published 1976. [chorus: 4S, 4A, 2T, 3B a cappella]

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