by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
Wages
Language: English
"Pay me my wages, Grief; Pay, and be done with me." "I gave you ears to hear; I gave you eyes to see. "More music has the wind Than you can ever hold; A dogwood flower is white Laburnum stormy gold." "Pay me my broken house, My twelve month bare of him." "With melting memories I packed them to the brim. "You need but crook your hand, And he is at your side, More loving and more loved Than if he had not died!"
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Text Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "Wages", appears in Wild Cherry [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Wages", op. 163 (Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 5 (1947) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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