by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet...
Language: English
Here the frailest leaves of [me]1, and yet my strongest-lasting: Here I shade and hide my thoughts -- I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
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Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Here the frailest leaves of me", appears in Leaves of Grass, first published 1900 [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 Otto Luening (1900 - 1996), "Here the frailest", published 1944 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Craig Urquhart (b. 1953), "Here the frailest leaves of me" [ voice and piano ], from Leaves. Songs on Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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