St. 1
Dover Beach (1867)
Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash,
From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay;
Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming
On the banks of the Wabash, far away.”
On the Banks of the Wabash (1896), chorus; this song as a whole was written by Dreiser's brother Paul (known as Paul Dresser); but Dreiser stated that "I wrote the first verse and chorus", in A Hoosier Holiday (1916) Ch. XLIII: "The Mystery of Coincidence".
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Theodore Dreiser 20
Novelist, journalist 1871–1945Related quotes
“And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.”
Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
George William Russell
(1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
“O father! I see a gleaming light.
Oh say, what may it be?”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807–1882) American poet
But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.
St. 12.
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842)
“I took her from rags right through to stitches,
Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.”
Nick Cave
(1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Deep in the Woods
“White moon gleaming
Among trees,
From every branch
Sound rising into
Canopies.”
La lune blanche
Luit dans les bois;
De chaque branche
Part une voix
Sous la ramée.
"La lune blanche", line 1, from La Bonne Chanson (1872); Sorrell p. 57