by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
There's this to say Matches original text
Language: English
Some can gaze and not be sick
But I could never learn the trick.
There's this to say for blood and breath,
They give a man a taste for death.
Composition:
- Set to music by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "There's this to say", 1965-68 [ voice and piano ]
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Additional Poems, no. 16, first published 1939
Go to the general single-text view
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2011-03-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 30