Something Tapped (Hardy, set by A. Downes, J. Wallach) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Something tapped on the pane of my room
  When there was never a trace
Of wind or rain, and I saw in the gloom
  My weary Beloved's face.

[ "O I am tired of waiting," she said,
  "Night, morn, noon, afternoon;
So cold it is in my lonely bed,
  And I thought you would join me soon!" ]¹

I rose and neared the window-glass,
[   But vanished thence had she: ]¹
Only a pallid moth, alas,
  Tapped at the pane for me.

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¹ omitted by Wallach.

Authorship

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

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

Andrew Downes (1950-)

Old Love's Domain

Joelle Wallach (1946-)

Mourning Madrigals

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