© by Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990)
Lesbos
Language: English
The Pleiades are sinking cool as paint [ ... ]
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First published in The Spectator, April 1953
First published in The Spectator, April 1953
Authorship:
- by Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990), "Lesbos", copyright © [author's text not yet checked 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 Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "Lesbos", op. 58 no. 3 (1962), published 1963 [ high voice and piano ], from Autumn's Legacy, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Francis John Routh (b. 1927), "Lesbos", 1966-8 [ high voice and piano ], from Songs of Lawrence Durrell [sung text not yet checked]
- by T. Wallace Southam , "Lesbos", published 1967 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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