In this choral nocturne, the composer has taken verses by three different poets which she felt to be linked very closely in the feeling as well as in subject. The phrase ‘‘Will you come?’’ links the first poem by William Barnestothe Second by Edward Thomas. In the Shelley poem it becomes ‘‘Come soon’’. The approach of night, which gives all three poems their nocturnal feeling, is gradual; evening begins to approach at the end of the Barns poem; theEdwardThomas is a real twilight poem, with flash...