by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Blow! blow! blow!
Language: English
Blow! blow! blow! Blow up sea-winds along Paumanok's shore; I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me.
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Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in Leaves of Grass, in Sea-Drift, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time 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):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Sea-drift", published 1918 [ baritone, mixed chorus, and orchestra ]
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