by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
Nights without sleep
Language: English
Nights without sleep and days That burn like smoldering fire, Nerves with the ceaseless cry Of wind in a tight-drawn wire- Years of this leaving me nothing But a handful of songs like these, That people think were happily written In an hour of ease.
Authorship:
- by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) [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 Garth Baxter (b. 1946), "Nights without sleep" [voice and piano], from A Composer's Thoughts, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Garth Baxter
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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