Across the door (Colum, set by A. Bax) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The fiddles were playing and playing, 
The couples were out on the floor; 
From converse and dancing he drew me, 
And across the door. 

Ah! strange were the dim, wide meadows, 
And strange was the cloud-strewn sky, 
And strange in the meadows the corncrakes, 
And they making cry! 

The hawthorn bloom was by us, 
Around us the breath of the south 
White hawthorn, strange in the night-time 
His kiss on my mouth!

Authorship

Padraic Colum (1881-1972)

Wild Earth

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

Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883-1953)

Five Irish Songs

Date added to the website: 2009-01-13.

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