When Moonlight Falls
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Gardner Read
Gardner Read Four Nocturnes, op. 23 Song Collection
"When Moonlight Falls" is the first song from Gardner Read's Four Nocturnes, op. 23 and sets Hilda Conkling's poetry to music.
Text
When Moonlight Falls
by Hilda Conkling
When moonlight falls on the water
It is like fingers touching the chords of a harp
on a misty, misty day. When moonlight strikes the water
I cannot get it into my poem;
I only hear the tinkle of ripplings of light.
When I see the water’s fingers
and the moon’s rays intertwined,
I think of all the words I love to hear,
and try to find words white enough for such shining.
Records
1999
Gardner Read: The Art of Song
William Blake, Frances Frost, James Joyce, Gardner Read, Henry Russell, Rabindranath Tagore, Jean Starr Untermeyer