© by T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Prickly pear prickly pear
Language: English
Prickly pear prickly pear [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with T.S. Eliot, Poems, London : Faber and Gwyer, 1926, p.95
Text Authorship:
- by T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), no title, appears in Poems, in The Hollow Men, no. 5, copyright © [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 Kaija Saariaho (1952 - 2023), "Study for Life", 1981/2019, first performed 1981 [ soprano and tape ] [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2026-10-11
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