by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862 - 1935)
From a city window
Language: English
I hear the feet below In the dark street; They hurry and shuffle by, And go, on errands bitter or sweet, Whither I cannot know. A bird troubles the night From the green plane And in my breast again Vague memories of delight Arise from the spirit's night, And pass into it again And the hurrying restless feet Below On errands I cannot know, Like a great tide ebb and flow.
Authorship:
- by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862 - 1935) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "From a city window", 1909, published 1918, from the collection English Lyrics, Tenth Set, no. 5. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Mike Pearson
This text was added to the website: 2013-07-26
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