La Fuite de la Lune (Wilde, set by C. Griffes) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand,
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.
Save for a cry that echoes shrill,
From some lone bird disconsolate;
A corn-crake calling to its mate;
The answer from the misty hill.
And suddenly the moon withdraws
Her sickle from the light'ning skies,
And to her sombre cavern flies,
Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

Input by Barbara Miller

Authorship

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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

Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920)

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