Night Stuff (Sandburg, set by W. Schuman) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman, lost in a
silver dress, lost in a circus rider's silver dress.

Listen a while, the lake by night is a lonely woman, a lovely woman,
circled with birches and pines mixing their green and white among stars
shattered in spray clear nights.	
  
I know the moon and the lake have twisted the roots under my heart the
same as a lonely woman, a lovely woman, in a silver dress, in a circus
rider's silver dress.

Authorship

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Smoke and Steel

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

William Howard Schuman (1910-1992)

Four Canonic Choruses

Date added to the website: 2007-07-07.

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