She weeps over Rahoon

Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling,
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling,
At grey moonrise.

Love, hear thou
How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered and the dark rain falling,
Then as now.

Dark too our hearts, O love, shall lie and cold
As his sad heart has lain
Under the moongrey nettles, the black mould
And muttering rain.

by James Joyce (1882-1941) , "She weeps over Rahoon", 1913, from Pomes Penyeach, no. 4

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

by Lorne M. Betts (1918-) , "Rain on Rahoon falls softly", 1952 [voice and piano], from Five Songs (1952), no. ?
by Brian Boydell (1917-2000) , "She weeps over Rahoon", 1936. [low voice and piano]
by David Del Tredici (1937-) , "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1974 [voice and piano], from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. ?
by Vivian Fine (1913-) , "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1933 [mezzo-soprano, two violins, viola, and violoncello], from Four Songs, no. ?
by Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) , "She weeps over Rahoon", 1939.
by Bill Hopkins (1943-) , "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1967 [soprano, bass clarinet, trumpet, viola, and harp], from Two Poems, no. ?
by Herbert Hughes (1882-1937) , "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1933 [voice and piano], from The Joyce Book, no. 4.
by Jack Maurice Jarrett (1934-) , "She weeps over Rahoon", 1964 [soprano or tenor and piano], from The Unquiet Heart
by Sergius Kagen (1909-1964) , "She weeps over Rahoon", <<1953. [voice and piano]
by Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) , "Rahoon", published 1947. [alto and piano]
by Laughton W. Patrick , "She weeps over Rahoon", 1959. [medium voice and piano]
by Alfred Reed (1921-) , "Rahoon", published 1965. [rhapsody: clarinet solo, band or wind ensemble]
by William Strickland (1914-) , "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1961. [medium high voice and piano]
by Harold Triggs , "She weeps over Rahoon", published 1935. [voice and piano]

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