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Charles Fowler Singleton Jr. (September 17, 1913 – December 12, 1985), [1] known as Charlie "Hoss" Singleton, was an American songwriter, best known for having co-written the lyrics for "Strangers in the Night" and "Moon Over Naples" (later covered as "Spanish Eyes"). [2] [3] Singleton wrote or co-wrote over a thousand songs.
Midway through the poem, the narrator stops discussing the nightingale in order to describe a mysterious female and a gothic scene. After the narrator is returned to his original train of thought by the nightingale's song, he recalls a moment when he took his crying son out to see the Moon, which immediately filled the child with joy.
In 1990 Dutch composer Jurriaan Andriessen set the poem to a mixed chamber choir setting. Rufus Wainwright's "Sonnet 43", the sixth track on his album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010), is a musical setting of the sonnet. In 2004 Flemish composer Ludo Claesen set this poem to a setting for chamber music (flute, piano and soprano-solo).
O what if the fowler my blackbird has taken? is given as by him, [7] but there is a related old ballad. [8] The (Red) Fuchsia Tree, set by Roger Quilter [9] and John Raynor, [10] is attributed to Dalmon but may be traditional. [11] In December 1934, Charles Dalmon 'Sussex poet' and 'descendent of Tudor Court Favourite' joined the British Union ...
The poem is most often read as the poet/narrator's admission of having experienced depression and a vivid description of what that experience feels like. In this particular reading of the poem, "the night" is the depression itself, and the narrator describes how he views the world around him in this state of mind.
In another love poem, 'In the Night Watches,' written in 1926, his command of free verse is natural and unstrained, unlike the laboured language and forced rhymes of his earlier love poetry. Its synthesis of lonely wilderness setting with feelings of separation and longing is harmonious and poignant."
The poem tells the story about a powerful girl with brown eyes. Mom recites 'uplifting' poem to daughter about loving her brown eyes: 'Her eyes are blue, yours are brown' Skip to main content
Night is a poem that describes two contrasting places: Earth, where nature runs wild, and Heaven, where predation and violence are nonexistent. It is influenced by a passage from the Old Testament: Isaiah 11:6-8 "The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a ...