'T is better to sit here beside the sea, Here on the spray-kissed beach, In silence, that between such friends as we Is full of deepest speech.
Songs of Love
Song Cycle by Lena Johnson McLin (1928 - 2023)
1. Silence  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906), "Silence"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. The Unlucky Apple  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
‘Twas [the apple that in]1 Eden Caused our father’s primal fall; And the Trojan War, remember — ‘Twas an apple caused it all. [So]2 for weeks I’ve hesitated, You can guess the reason why, For I want to tell my darling She’s the apple of my eye.
Authorship:
- by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906), "The Unlucky Apple", appears in Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
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View original text (without footnotes)1 McLin: "an apple in"
2 McLin: "Now"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
3. If I could give you all I have  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
If I could give you all I have it would not be enough. If all my life I’d grasp and save it would not fill this love. All men living, all men dead conceiving of love, in all the words their hearts have said, have not said enough to make the whole star reach of sky they might be thinking of, deep as this simple you and I. Your love, my love.
Authorship:
- by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Total word count: 146