© by James Wright (1914 - 1953)
A blessing
Language: English
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by James Wright (1914 - 1953), "A blessing", appears in This Branch Will Not Break, copyright © 1963 by Anne Wright [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 Lori Laitman (b. 1955), "A Blessing", 2005/2017 [ soprano and piano ], from River of horses, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by David Evan Thomas (b. 1958), "A blessing", 2000 [ tenor, piano ], from Blessings: Five Poems of James Wright, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2025-11-07
Line count: 24
Word count: 172