The moth (Mare, set by L. Berkeley, P. McIntyre) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Isled in the midnight air,
Musked with the dark's faint bloom,
Out into glooming and secret haunts
The flame cries, 'Come!'

Lovely in dye and fan,
A-tremble in shimmering grace,
A moth from her winter swoon
Uplifts her face:

Stares from her glamorous eyes;
Wafts her on plumes like mist;
In ecstasy swirls and sways
To her strange tryst.

Authorship

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

Flora: A Book of Drawings

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

Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)

Songs of the Half-Light

Paul McIntyre

Four Poems of Walter de la Mare

Date added to the website: 2008-01-13.

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