by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard (1869 - 1948)
Transformation
Language: English
I shall be beautiful when you come back, With beauty that is not of lips or eyes, And you will look at me with swift surprise, Seeing in me that loveliness I lack; And you will wonder how this beauty grew In all the restless clamour of the days, Not knowing that I walk in cloistered ways, Bearing within one rapt, sweet thought of you.
Authorship:
- by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard (1869 - 1948) [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 Wintter Haynes Watts (1884 - 1962), "Transformation", published 1922, copyright © 1922 [ low voice and piano ], New York: G. Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2020-07-08
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