My secrets cry aloud [ ... ]
Open House
Song Cycle by William Bolcom (b. 1938)
1. Open house  [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "Open house", appears in Open House, first published 1941, copyright ©
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Believe me, knot of gristle, I bleed like a tree [ ... ]
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- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "Give way, ye gates", appears in Praise to the End!, first published 1951, copyright ©
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow [ ... ]
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- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "The waking", appears in The Waking: Poems 1933-1953, first published 1953, 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.4. The serpent  [sung text checked 1 time]
There was a Serpent who had to sing [ ... ]
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- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "The serpent", appears in Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke, first published 1958, copyright ©
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I knew a woman, lovely in her bones [ ... ]
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- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "I knew a woman", appears in Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke, first published 1958, copyright ©
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On love's worst ugly day [ ... ]
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- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "First meditation", appears in Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke, in Meditation of an Old Woman, first published 1958, copyright ©
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Let others probe the mystery if they can [ ... ]
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- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), copyright ©
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