Two songs

Without you
No rose can grow;
No leaf be green
If never seen
Your sweetest face;
No bird have grace
Or power to sing;
Or anything
Be kind, or fair,
And you nowhere.

Text Authorship:

• by Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1928), "Little elegy", appears in Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets, first published 1929

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Klagelied", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Ted Perry , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

Musa of the sea-blue eyes,
Silver nightingale alone
In a little coffin lies;
A stone beneath a stone.
She, whose song we loved the best,
Is voiceless in a sudden Night:
On your light limbs, O loveliest,
May the dust be light!

Text Authorship:

• by Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1928), "On a singing girl", appears in Black Armour: A Book of Poems, first published 1923

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