1930
Twilight
Composed by 
Ernst Bacon
Ernst Bacon Text by 
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Songs at Parting Song Collection
"Twilight" is the fourth song in Ernst Bacon's song collection Songs at Parting: A Selection of Poems by Walt Whitman. The same song can also be found in an earlier collection of Bacon songs entitled Ten Songs (of 1928).
Text
Twilight
by Walt Whitman
The soft voluptuous opiate shades,
The sun just gone, the eager light dispell’d–(I too will soon be gone, dispell’d,)
A haze–nirwana–rest and night–oblivion.
Sheet Music
Songs at Parting
Ernst Bacon
1. Grand is the Seen
2. The Last Invocation
3. Darest Thou Now, O Soul
4. Twilight
5. One Thought Ever at the Fore
6. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
7. Whispers of Heavenly Death
8. The Sobbing of the Bells
2. The Last Invocation
3. Darest Thou Now, O Soul
4. Twilight
5. One Thought Ever at the Fore
6. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
7. Whispers of Heavenly Death
8. The Sobbing of the Bells