by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
Opal
Language: English
You are ice and fire, The touch of you burns my hands like snow. You are cold and flame. You are the crimson of amaryllis, The silver of moon-touched magnolias. When I am with you, My heart is a frozen pond Gleaming with agitated torches.
Confirmed with Amy Lowell, Selected Poems of Amy Lowell, New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2002, p.66
Text Authorship:
- by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925), "Opal", appears in Pictures of the Floating World, The Independent, first published 1916 [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 Julie Barwick , "Opal", 2018 [ mezzo-soprano, violoncello, theorbo and harpsichord ], from Songs of Ice and Fire, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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