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These illustrations are from The World’s Best Music: Famous Songs and Those Who Made Them edited by Helen Kendrick Johnson, Frederic Dean, Reginald DeKoven and Gerrit Smith, Vol I, The University Society, New York, 1900.

The Rainy Day

The Rainy Day

World’s Best Music (1900)

The poem as printed in the book reads: The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fal [...]

Keywords: sheet music, music, page images, poems

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Added: 2006-10-27

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

The Rainy Day

The Rainy Day

World’s Best Music (1900)

The second page of the sheet music (piano score) for the song by Wordsworth, “The Rainy Day.”

It’s a very “goth” song, all about how everyone must endure misery.

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Added: 2006-10-27

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies

When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies

World’s Best Music (1900)

Sheet music for piano, a setting of Edward Bulwer (Lord Lytton)’s poem: 1 When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies     Then most I pine for thee;; Bend on me then thy tender eyes,     As stars look on the se [...]

Keywords: music, sheet music, page images

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Added: 2006-10-24

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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