The Isle of Portland (Housman, set by C. Orr, T. Dunhill, J. Edmunds) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The star-filled seas are smooth to-night
From France to England strown;
Black towers above the Portland light
The felon-quarried stone.

On yonder island, not to rise,
Never to stir forth free,
Far from his folk a dead lad lies
That once was friends with me.

Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
And luckier may you find the night
Than ever you found the day.

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

A Shropshire Lad

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

Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877-1946)

John Edmunds (1913-1986)

Charles Wilfred Orr (1893-1976)

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