The nightingale near the house

Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:
It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond
Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond
Stares. And you sing, you sing.
 
That star-enchanted song falls through the air
From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,
Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;
And all the night you sing.
 
My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee
As all night long I listen, and my brain
Receives your song; then loses it again
In moonlight on the lawn.
 
Now is your voice a marble high and white,
Then like a mist on fields of paradise,
Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,
Then breaks, and it is dawn.

by Harold Monro (1879-1932) , "The nightingale near the house", from Real Property, published 1922

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

by Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880-1956) , "The nightingale near the house", published 1920. [voice and piano]
by Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) , "The nightingale", 1960 [baritone, string quartet, and piano], from Twelve Tennyson Poems, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2009-02-04.

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