by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

Language: English 
Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the Spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their Mother, Care, like a drowning child,
Is laid asleep in flowers . . .

Composition:

    Set to music by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "To music: a fragment" [ voice and piano ]

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Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller

This text was added to the website: 2013-04-20
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