Curfew

Solemnly, mournfully,
  Dealing its dole,
The Curfew Bell
  Is beginning to toll.
Cover the embers,
  And put out the light;
Toil comes with the morning,
  And rest with the night.
Dark grow the windows,
  And quenched is the fire;
Sound fades into silence,--
  All footsteps retire.
No voice in the chambers,
  No sound in the hall!
Sleep and oblivion
  Reign over all!

The book is completed,
  And closed, like the day;
And the hand that has written it
  Lays it away.
Dim grow its fancies;
  Forgotten they lie;
Like coals in the ashes,
  They darken and die.
Song sinks into silence,
  The story is told,
The windows are darkened,
  The hearth-stone is cold.
Darker and darker
  The black shadows fall;
Sleep and oblivion
  Reign over all.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) , "Curfew", from The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, published 1845

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

by Thomas Anderton (1836-1903) , "Curfew" [partsong: SATB and piano]
by W. H. Bentley , "Curfew", op. 2 (Six songs) no. 6. [voice and piano]
by Francesco Berger (1834-1933) , "Curfew" [boys' or girls' voices and piano], from Two Part-Songs
by Beta , "Curfew", from Gems of Longfellow
by John Blockley (1800-1882) , "Curfew", published >>1854. [voice (or duet of voices) and piano]
by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) , "The curfew", published 1914. [voice and piano]
by Giuseppe Dinelli , "Curfew" [voice and piano]
by Theodore Distin (1823-1893) , "No sound in the hall" [voice and piano]
by E. J. Finck , "Curfew", published >>1867.
by Harvey Bartlett Gaul (1881-1945) , "Curfew", published 1934. [mixed chorus and piano]
by William Wallace Gilchrist (1846-1916) , "The curfew" [SSA a cappella?]
by Stephen Ralph Glover (1812-1870) , "The curfew bell", published >>1880. [duet]
by George Coleman Gow (1860-1938) , "Curfew", op. 2 (Five songs) no. 4, published 1888. [voice and piano]
by George Coleman Gow (1860-1938) , "Curfew", published 1896 [voice and piano], from A Group of Songs, no. ?
by Allis Gower , "The curfew bell", published 188-? [voice and piano]
by Pasquale D. Guglielmo (1810-1873) , "The curfew bell" [voice and piano]
by John Liptrot Hatton (1809-1886) , "Curfew", published 1869. [contralto or baritone and piano]
by Arthur William Marchant (1850-?) , "Curfew" [partsong for women's voices and piano]
by Joseph Edward Newell , "The curfew bell" [partsong for two voices and piano]
by Henry Perabeau , "Curfew bell", published 1844-7.
by John Francis Holcombe Read (1821-) , "Curfew" [contralto or baritone and piano]
by Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward (1835-1902) , "The curfew", published 1862.
by Edward Silas (1827-1909) , "The curfew", published 186-? [baritone or contralto and piano]
by Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879) , "Curfew" [SATB and piano]
by Simon Waley Waley (1827-1875) , "Curfew" [bass or baritone and piano]

Date added to the website: 2008-06-08.

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