by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Recuerdo
Language: English
We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable — But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon. We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. We were very tired, we were very merry, We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. We hailed, "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head, And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read; And she wept, "God bless you!" for the apples and pears, And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Recuerdo", appears in A Few Figs from Thistles, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Victoria Bond (b. 1945), "Recuerdo", published 1976 [ soprano and piano ], from From an Antique Land [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Recuerdo", published 1941 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jonathan Dove (b. 1959), "Recuerdo", 2015, first performed 2015 [ voice and piano ], from Nights Not Spent Alone, no. 1, confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by L. Margueritte House (b. 1901), "Recuerdo", published 1971 [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Lessard (b. 1920), "Recuerdo", published 1964 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Musto (b. 1954), "Recuerdo", from Recuerdo, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Scott Wheeler (b. 1952), "Recuerdo", 1990 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Wasting the Night, no. 2, Scott Wheeler Music [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Musto
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 178