Six significant landscapes

Song Cycle by Kelly Tang (b. 1961)

4. When my dream was near the moon [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

When my dream was near the moon,
The white folds of its gown
Filled with yellow light.
The soles of its feet
Grew red.
Its hair filled
With certain blue crystallizations
From stars,
Not far off.

Text Authorship:

by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Six significant landscapes, no. 4, first published 1916

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Confirmed with Others: a magazine of the new verse, V. II, No. 3, Mar 1916.

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