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Briefly It Enters
Song Cycle by William Bolcom (b. 1938)
Word count: 957
1. Who  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship
- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
2. The clearing  [sung text checked 1 time]
The dog and I push through the ring [ ... ]
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- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
3. Otherwise  [sung text checked 1 time]
I got out of bed [ ... ]
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- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
4. February: Thinking of flowers  [sung text checked 1 time]
Now wind torments the field [ ... ]
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- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
5. Twilight: After haying  [sung text checked 1 time]
Yes, long shadows go out [ ... ]
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- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
6. Man eating  [sung text checked 1 time]
The man at the table across from mine [ ... ]
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- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
7. The sick wife  [sung text checked 1 time]
The sick wife stayed in the car [ ... ]
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- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), appears in Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, copyright © 1996 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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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.8. Peonies at dusk  [sung text checked 1 time]
White peonies blooming along the porch [ ... ]
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- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
9. Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks  [sung text checked 1 time]
I am the blossom pressed in a book [ ... ]
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- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]