1987


She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep (op. 22, no. 2)

Composed by Lowell Liebermann
Text by Robert Graves

Night Songs, op. 22 Song Collection


"She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep" is a song from Lowell Liebermann's Night Songs, op. 22 song cycle. The text was written by Robert Graves, a British poet.

Text

She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep

By Robert Graves

 

She tells her love while half asleep,

In the dark hours,

With half-words whispered low:

As Earth stirs in her winter sleep,

And puts out grass and flowers

Despite the snow,

Despite the falling snow.

Records

2001

The New American Art Song

Jake Heggie, Lowell Liebermann