A dead calm and mist

    (Towards evening)

The slow heave of the sleeping sea
    With pulse-like motion swells and falls,
    And drowsily a stray gull calls
The very wail of melancholy;
    All day the moveless mist has slept
    On the same bosom east winds swept:

No breath of change in the grey mist,
Save just a dream of amethyst.

by Fiona Macleod (1885-1905) [pseudonym] , "A dead calm and mist", from Earth's Voices, published 1884

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

by Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960) , "Calm sea and mist", published 1925 [medium voice and piano or string quartet], from Three Impressions, no. ?
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "A dead calm and mist", op. 68 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set II) no. 2 (1926). [voice and piano]

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