Eight Epitaphs
(1939)
Eight Epitaphs is the best known song cycle of Theodore Chanler. The cycle sets the poetry of English writer Walter de la Mare.
The texts are from de la Mare's volume Benighted, in which a man and a woman are reading various tombstones at night in a graveyard.
SONGS:
- 1. Alice Rodd
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- 2. Susannah Fry
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- 3. Three Sisters
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- 4. Thomas Logge
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- 5. A Midget
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- 6. No Voice to Scold
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- 7. Ann Poverty
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- 8. Be Very Quiet Now
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
