Pale amber sunlight falls across (Dowson, set by F. Delius) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Pale amber sunlight falls across
 The reddening October trees,
 That hardly sway before a breeze
 As soft as summer: summer's loss
 Seems little, dear! on days like these!

 Let misty Autumn be our part!
 The twilight of the year is sweet:
 Where shadow and the darkness meet.
 Our love, a twilight of the heart
 Eludes a little time's deceit.

 Are we not better and at home
 In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
 No harvest joy is worth a dream?
 A little while and night shall come,
 A little while, then, let us dream.

Input by Ahmed E. Ismail

Authorship

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)

Verses

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

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

Songs of Sunset

Date added to the website: 2005-01-23.

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