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Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte , opus 168
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949)
1. Chestnut Hill
Language: English
2. A wood thrush
Language: English
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3. Flags
Language: English
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4. Fog  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
What grave has cracked and let this frail thing out, To press its poor face to the window-pane; Or, head hidden in frayed cloak, to drift about The mallow bush, then out to the wet lane? Long-closeted scents across the drippings break, Of violet petunias blowing there, A shred of mint, mixed with whatever ache Old springs have left behind wedged tight in air. Small, aged things peer in, ready to slip Into the chairs, and watch and stare apace; The house has loosened from its grasp of yore Dark-hoarded tales. Were I, finger on lip, To climb the stair, might I not find the place Turned all to huddled shape, white on the floor?
Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "Fog", appears in Wild Cherry
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Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
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5. An autumn day  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Beauty goes sadly on a day like this; She cannot find a rose in any lane; The haw upon the thorn seems all amiss For what was white, and very April-plain. Here are the long-packed secrecies of yore; And the pale glimmer of a dead man's clothes; And withered things blown up and down at door; And here the old disaster of the rose. Yet she is still herself, though different, With a hushed foot upon her errands set; And with a spare hand, shakes the ancient mood Of music out a hedge, or some lost scent From the wrecked grass, or in the silver wet Strews with her violets a crumbling wood.
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- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "An autumn day", appears in Wild Cherry
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Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]