My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
1. My Heart Leaps Up [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Mein Herz hüpft auf", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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2. The Garden [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
A little garden [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Jeanne Němcová , "The garden", appears in I Never Saw Another Butterfly, New York, Schocken, first published 1978, copyright ©
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- a text in Czech (Čeština) by Franta Bass (1930 - 1944) [text unavailable]
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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. Fantasy in Purple [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
eat the drums of tragedy for me.
Beat the drums of tragedy and death.
And let the choir sing a stormy song
To drown the rattle of my dying breath.
Beat the drums of tragedy for me,
And let the white violins whir thin and slow,
But blow one blaring trumpet note of sun
To go with me
to the darkness
where I go
Text Authorship:
- by Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967), "Fantasy in Purple"
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In: James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Poetry, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922
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4. I'd Like to Go Alone [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
I'd like to go away alone. Where there are other nicer people, Somewhere into the far unknown, There, where no one kills another. Maybe more of us, A thousand strong, Will reach this goal Before too long.
Text Authorship:
- by Jeanne Němcová , "I'd like to go alone"
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- a text in Czech (Čeština) by Alena Munkova-Synková (b. 1926), written 1942 [text unavailable]
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Language: English
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Text Authorship:
- by Shuntarō Tanikawa (b. 1931), appears in Eleven Poems for Paul Klee, 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.6. Softened by Time's [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Softened by Time’s consummate plush, How sleek the woe appears That threatened childhood’s citadel and undermined the years. Bisected now, by bleaker griefs, We envy the despair That devastated childhood’s realm, so easy to repair.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "Childish griefs", appears in Poems: Third Series, in 1. Life, no. 55, first published 1896
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, 1998.
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7. Ring around a rosy... [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Ring-a-ring o' roses, A pocket full of posies. A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down!
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Common American version: Ring around the rosie, A pocket full of posies. Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down! Delamar, Gloria T. Mother Goose, from Nursery to Literature, Lincoln, Nebraska : iUniverse, (2001) [1987], p.38 ----- A ring – a ring of roses, Laps full of posies; Awake – awake! Now come and make A ring – a ring of roses. Stephens, Ann S., The Old Homestead, London : Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1855, p. 213 ----- Ring-a-ring-a-roses, A pocket full of posies; Hush! hush! hush! hush! We're all tumbled down. Greenaway, Kate (n.d.) .Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes, London : Frederick Warne and Co 1881, p. 52
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