by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Some can gaze and not be sick
Language: English
Some can gaze and not be sick But I could never learn the trick. There's this to say for blood and breath, They give a man a taste for death.
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Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Additional Poems, no. 16, first published 1939 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "There's this to say", 1965-68. [voice and piano] [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-03-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 30