Last night I dreamt this most strange dream and everywhere I saw What did not seem could ever be: You were not there with me! Awake, I turned and touched you asleep, face to the wall. I said How dreams can lie! But you were not there at all!
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Text Authorship:
- by Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967), "Dream", appears in Fields of Wonder, first published 1947 [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 Robert Owens (1925 - 2017), "Dream", op. 13 no. 2 [ tenor and piano ], from Desire, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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