Night Song
Duration:
2'30"
Year Composed:
2018
Instrumentation:
About the Work
<p class="font_9">"Night Song" is a poem by Marjorie Allen Seiffert that appeared in the Poetry Foundation July 1932 Poetry Magazine under a selection of poems titled, "Whispered Lament". This poem had such clear-cut ebb and flow that conveyed a strong meloncholic and edging on the darker side of emotion. </p>
Text
Come, sleep, and carry her far,
Away from this despair;
It little matters where--
Perhaps to a simpler star
Where the resplendent sun
Shines upon innocent meadows,
Devoid of trees and shadow,
and life has not begun.
Perhaps to a star so high,
So dark, lost and alone,
No human lips have known
A name to call it by--
And cool with hollow space.
Her heart, troubled and shaken,
That she may not awaken
With tears upon her face.
Text by:
Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1885-1970)
