When reeds are dead and straw to thatch the marshes, And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind Like agèd warriors westward, tragic, thinned Of half their tribe; an over the flattened rushes, Stripped of its secret, open, stark and bleak, Blackens afar the half-forgotten creek, -- Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes My heart. I know that beauty must ail and die, And will be born again, -- but ah, to see Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky! Oh, Autumn! Autumn! -- What is the Spring to me?
Three Songs
Song Cycle by Harrison Kerr (1897 - 1978)
?. The death of Autumn [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "The death of Autumn", appears in Second April, first published 1921
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]?. Ebb [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Ebb", appears in Second April, first published 1921
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Total word count: 126