© by Robert Penn Warren (1905 - 1989)
How instant joy, how clang
Language: English
How instant joy, how clang [ ... ]
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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 Robert Penn Warren , The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, LSU Press, 1998, p.215
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Penn Warren (1905 - 1989), "Mediterranean Beach, Day after Storm", appears in Tale of Time, in Delight, in Love: Two Vignettes, no. 1, 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 Emma Lou Diemer (1927 - 2024), "How instant joy", 1972-3 [ high voice and piano ], from A Miscellany of Love Songs, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
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