A starry night (Dunbar, set by S. Coleridge-Taylor, U. Kay) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


A cloud fell down from the heavens,
  And broke on the mountain's brow;
It scattered the dusky fragments
  All over the vale below.

The moon and the stars were anxious
  To know what its fate might be;
So they rushed to the azure op'ning,
  And all peered down to see.

Authorship

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Majors and Minors

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

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

African Romances

Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917-1995)

Two Dunbar Lyrics

Date added to the website: 2008-07-27.

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