by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
I looked in my heart while the wild...
Language: English
I looked in my heart [while]1 the wild swans went over. And what did I see I had not seen before? Only a question less or a question more: Nothing to match the flight of wild birds flying. Tiresome heart, forever living and dying, House without air, I leave you and lock your door. Wild swans, come over the town, come over The town again, trailing your legs and crying!
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Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in Second April, first published 1921 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932), "Wild Swans", from Five Millay Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Wild Swans", 1935, published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], San Antonio, TX: Southern Music Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Fetler (b. 1920), "Wild Swans", published 1957 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harrison Kerr (1897 - 1978), "Wild Swans", published 1975 [ soprano, piano ], from Three Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "The wild swans", op. 51 (Five Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay) no. 2 (1983) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lynn Steele (1951 - 2002), "Wild swans" [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Seven Songs of Edna St. Vincent Millay, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ivana M. Themmen , "Wild Swans" [ soprano, orchestra ], from Shelter this candle from the wind [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Victoria Brago
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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