The summer sun ray [ ... ]
Herstory I
Song Cycle by Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (b. 1941)
1. Noon walk on the asylum lawn  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974), "Noon walk on the asylum lawn", appears in To Bedlam and Part Way Back, first published 1960, copyright ©
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I have gone out, a possessed witch [ ... ]
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- by Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974), "Her Kind", appears in To Bedlam and Part Way Back, first published 1960, copyright ©
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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.3. Side by side  [sung text checked 1 time]
Ho! in the dawn [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012), "Side by Side", appears in Necessities of Life, first published 1966, copyright ©
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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.4a. For a Child: The Crib  [sung text checked 1 time]
You sleeping I bend to cover [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012), "The crib", appears in Necessities of Life, in Night-Pieces: for a Child, no. 1, first published 1966, copyright ©
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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.4b. Morning song  [sung text checked 1 time]
All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear. The window square Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons.
Authorship:
- by Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), "Morning Song", appears in Ariel, first published 1965
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I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful -- The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agitation of the hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Authorship:
- by Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), appears in Crossing the Water, first published 1971
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Death starts like a dream [ ... ]
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- by Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974), "Old", appears in All My Pretty Ones, first published 1962, copyright ©
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Lullaby./ Weave my threads to sleep [ ... ]
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- by Pam White , copyright ©
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