A Starry Night

Authors

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Publication Information

Published in Majors and Minors (1895)

Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin

Musical Settings

Ulysses Simpson Kay, A Starry Night (SATB a cappella) (January 1966)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, A Starry Night op.17 (high voice and piano) (January 1897)

Text

A cloud fell down from the heavens,
And broke on the mountain's brow;
It scattered the dusky fragments
All over the vale below.

The moon and the stars were anxious
To know what its fate might be;
So they rushed to the azure op'ning,
And all peered down to see.

Recommended Citation

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "A Starry Night" (1895). Dunbar Music Archive. 5.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/5