by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906)
If I could give you all I have
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) [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 Lena Johnson McLin (1928 - 2023), "If I could give you all I have", 1986, from Songs of Love, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2023-10-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 72