The sun has set, and the long grass [now]1
Waves [dreamily]2 in the evening wind; 
[And the wild bird has flown from that old gray stone 
In some warm nook a couch to find.]3 

In all the lonely landscape round 
I see no [light]4 and hear no sound, 
Except the wind [that far away]5
Come sighing o'er the healthy sea.

T. Fisk sets stanza 1

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Note: in the Fisk work, this is sung by Nelly

¹ omitted by Mitchell
² Fisk: "dreaming"
³ omitted by Fisk
⁴ Mitchell: "sight"
⁵ Mitchell: "which"

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Ronald A. Beckett , "The sun has set", 2012 [ voice, piano, oboe, clarinet ], from Reflection: Three Poems by Emily Brontë, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ronald A. Beckett , "The sun has set", 2012 [ voice, piano, oboe, clarinet ], from Reflection: Three Poems by Emily Brontë, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ronald A. Beckett , "The sun has set", 2012 [ baritone, cello, piano ], from Three songs for baritone, cello, piano, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Terry Fisk , "The sun has set, and the long grass now", published 2002, stanza 1 [ voice, piano ], from Wuthering Heights, no. 52 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "Evening landscape", op. 24 no. 6 (1977), from The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "The sun has set, and the long grass now" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

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