Moonrise (Hopkins, set by B. Rands, E. Křenek, D. Robertson, R. Woollen) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


I woke in the midsummer not-to-call night
  in the white and the walk of the morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe
  of a fingernail held to the candle,
Or paring of paradisaical fruit,
  lovely in waning but lustreless
Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow
  of dark Maenefa the mountain;
A cusp yet clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him
  entangled him, not quite utterly.
This was the prized, the desirable sight,
  unsought, presented so easily,
Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me
  eyelid and eyelid of slumber.

Authorship

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

Ernst Křenek (1900-1991)

Four Songs

Bernard Rands (1935-)

Canti lunatici

Donna N. Robertson (1935-)

Five Odes to God in Nature on Poems by Gerard M. Hopkins

Russell Woollen (1923-1994)

Suite for High Voice

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