by William Alexander Percy (1885 - 1942)
French blue
Language: English
There's a blue flower grows in France A tattered roadside thing, Like flowers cut, by little girls, Of paper while they sing, Which when I see so far from home I feel tears almost rise, For it is blue with just the blue Of one dear lady's eyes.
Confirmed with William Alexander Percy, The Collected Poems of William Alexander Percy, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1944
Text Authorship:
- by William Alexander Percy (1885 - 1942), "French Blue" [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 Nicolas Slonimsky (1894 - 1995), "French blue", c1928 [ medium voice and piano ], from Garden songs, no. 3, Boston : White-Smith [sung text not yet checked]
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