You cannot dream things lovelier than the first love I had of her. Nor air is any as magic shaken as her breath in the first kiss taken. And who, in dreaming, understands her hands stretched like a blind man's hands? Open, trembling, wise they were - You cannot dream things lovelier.
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Song Cycle by Samuel Hans Adler (b. 1928)
?. Things lovelier [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Humbert Wolfe (1885 - 1940), "Things lovelier", appears in The Unknown Goddess, first published 1925
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Language: English
Why should a man
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- by Humbert Wolfe (1885 - 1940), "The rose", appears in Kensington Gardens, first published 1924
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?. Queen Victoria
Language: English
Queen Victoria's / statue is
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- by Humbert Wolfe (1885 - 1940), "Queen Victoria", appears in Kensington Gardens, first published 1924
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