The battle has passed from the height

The battle has passed from the height
And still did evening fall
While heaven with its hosts of night
Gloriously canopied all

The dead around were sleeping
On heath and granite grey
And the dying their last watch were keeping
In the closing of the day.

by Emily Brontë (1818-1848) , no title, from Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Now for the First Time Printed, published 1902

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

by Pamela Harrison (1915-) , "The battle has passed from the height", 1954 [soprano or tenor and piano], from The Lonely Landscape, no. ?
by Robert Long , "A lonely landscape", published 1961. [SSA, piano]

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

Date added to the website: 2008-01-19.

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