All You Who Sleep Tonight, ISBN 978-0394585161, is a 1990 collection of poems by Vikram Seth.
British composer Jonathan Dove set eight of the quatrains and five other poems to music for Nuala Willis in a 1996 song cycle of the same name.[1]
The collection is grouped into five sections:
A selection of the poems has been set by British composer Jonathan Dove, and recorded on an award winning CD for the Naxos label by mezzo soprano Patricia Bardon and pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen.
All You Who Sleep Tonight
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above—
Know that you aren't alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
Works by Vikram Seth
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