by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Aubade
Language: English
Cool and beautiful as the blossom of the wild carrot With its crimson central eye. Round and beautiful as the globe of the onion blossom Were her pale breasts whereon I laid me down to die. From the wound of my enemy that thrust me through in the dark wood I arose; with sweat on my lip and the wild woodgrasses in my spur I arose andstood But never did I arise from loving her.
Confirmed with, Collected Lyrics, New York : Washington Square Press, 1959, p.208
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Aubade", appears in Wine from these Grapes, no. 16 [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 Sheila Silver (b. 1946), "Aubade", 2013, copyright © 2013, first performed 2013 [ soprano and piano ], from Beauty Intolerable, no. 11, Argenta Music
Publisher: Sheila Silver [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
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