Little grey dreams, I sit at the ocean's edge, At the grey ocean's edge, With you on my lap. I launch you, one by one, And one by one, Little grey dreams, Under the grey, grey clouds, Out on the grey, grey sea, You go sailing away, from my empty lap, Little grey dreams. Sailing! sailing! Into the black At the horizon's edge.
Only in Dreams
Song Cycle by Brittney Benton (b. 1999)
1. Little Grey Dreams [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Angelina Weld Grimké (1880 - 1958), "Little Grey Dreams", written 1924
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Confirmed with The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2, Rutgers University Press, 2003, p.172
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
2. Memories [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Again, as always, when the shadows fall,
In that sweet space between the dark and day,
I leave the present and its fretful claims
And seek the dim past where my memories stay.
I dream an old, forgotten, far-off dream,
And think old thoughts and live old scenes anew,
Till suddenly I reach the heart of Spring—
The spring that brought me you!
I see again a little woody lane,
The moonlight rifting golden through the trees;
I hear the plaintive chirp of drowsy bird
Lulled dreamward by a tender, vagrant breeze;
I hold your hand, I look into your eyes,
I touch your lips,—oh, peerless, matchless dower!
Oh, Memory thwarting Time and Space and Death!
Oh, Little Perfect Hour!
Text Authorship:
- by Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882 - 1961), "Douce Souvenance", written 1920, first published c1920
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Confirmed with Shadowed Dreams : Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, Rutgers University Press, 2006, p.105; first appeared in The Crisis, c1920.
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3. Grief [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
A string of shiny days we had [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "The Dramatists", appears in Enough Rope, 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.Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope, Boni & Liveright, 1926
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