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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. 

Text 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
Line count: 8
Word count: 65

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