by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
To old age
Language: English
I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "To old age", appears in Leaves of Grass, first published 1900 [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 John M. Klein (b. 1915), "To old age", published 1946 [ SSAA chorus and optional piano ], from Sentences from Whitman [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), "To old age", 1975, published 1979 [ soprano and piano ], from By the Roadside: Six Songs to Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 4, Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2005-10-12
Line count: 2
Word count: 19