Genre: Vocal
Mood: Tragic
Forces: Female voice, Piano
Length: 3 Minutes
Autumn (2006) – a setting of Walter De La Mare for soprano/mezzo and piano, 3’.
Autumn
There is wind where the rose was;
Cold rain where sweet grass was;
And clouds like sheep
Stream o’er the steep
Grey skies where the lark was.
Nought gold where your hair was;
Nought warm where your hand was;
But phantom, forlorn,
Beneath the thorn,
Your ghost where your face was.
Sad winds where your voice was;
Tears, tears where my heart was;
And ever with me,
Child, ever with me,
Silence where hope was.
Walter de la Mare