by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Year that trembled and reel'd beneath...
Language: English
Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me! Your summer wind was warm enough -- yet the air I breathed froze me; A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me; Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself; Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled? And sullen hymns of defeat?
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Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Year that trembled" [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):
- by Roy Harris (1898 - 1979), "The year that trembled", published 1941. [SATB chorus a cappella] [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-07-31
Line count: 6
Word count: 57