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3 songs
Song Cycle by Edwin Roxburgh (b. 1937)
1. these children  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in 50 Poems, first published 1940, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.2. this is the garden  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
this is the garden:colours come and go, frail azures fluttering from night's outer wing strong silent greens serenely lingering, absolute lights like baths of golden snow. This is the garden:pursed lips do blow upon cool flutes within wide glooms,and sing (of harps celestial to the quivering string) invisible faces hauntingly and slow. This is the garden. Time shall surely reap and on Death's blade lie many a flower curled, in other lands where other songs be sung; yet stand They here enraptured,as among The slow deep trees perpetual of sleep some silver-fingered fountain steals the world.
Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in XLI Poems, in 5. Sonnets, no. 4, first published 1925
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Note: this poem entered the public domain in 2021.
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3. a wind has blown the rain away  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
a wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think i too have known autumn too long (and what have you to say, wind wind wind -- did you love somebody and have you the petal of somewhere in your heart pinched from dumb summer? O crazy daddy of death dance cruelly for us and start the last leaf whirling in the final brain of air!)Let us as we have seen see doom's integration... a wind has blown the rain away and the leaves and the sky and the trees stand: the trees stand. The trees, suddenly wait against the moon's face.
Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 2. Chimneys, in 2. Sonnets - Unrealities, no. 5, first published 1923
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Total word count: 228