As I sat down by Saddle Stream To bathe my dusty feet there, A boy was standing on the bridge Any girl would meet there. As I went over Woody Knob And dipped into the Hollow, A youth was coming up the hill Any maid would follow. Then in I turned at my own gate, - And nothing to be sad for - To such a man as any wife Would pass a pretty lad for.
Millaydy's Madrigals
Song Cycle by Thomas B. Briccetti (b. 1936)
?. The return from town  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in The Harp-Weaver and other poems
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Language: English
I shall go back again to the [bleak]1 shore And build a little shanty on the sand, In such a way that the extremest band Of brittle seaweed will escape my door But by a yard or two; and nevermore Shall I return to take you by the hand; I shall be gone to what I understand, And happier than I ever was before. The love that stood a moment in your eyes, The words that lay a moment on your tongue, Are one with all that in a moment dies, A little under-said and over-sung. But I shall find the sullen rocks and skies Unchanged from what they were when I was young.
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in The Harp-Weaver and other poems, in Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree, first published 1923
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?. Afternoon on a hill  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun, I will touch a hundred flowers And [not pick one.]1 I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine And then start down.
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in Renascence and Other Poems, first published 1917
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Grier: "pick not one."
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