Title: The Rainy Day
Music: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Note: This appears to be Amy Beach’s first published song, written in 1880 when she was just 13. She was 16 when this was published.
Free at Art Song Central:
- PDF: The Rainy Day
- Key: F Minor
- Range: C4 – F5
Elsewhere on the Internet:
- Available in unedited pages at the Library of Congress. (Note that the name on the cover page and the catalog entry are spelled incorrectly.)
Mp3:
MIDI:
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldr’ng wall,
But at ev’ry gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary.
My thoughts still cling to the mould’ring Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
- Recmusic.org has the text.
