by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Language: English
I lie here thinking of you: -- the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves, smears with saffron the horned branched the lean heavily against a smooth purple sky! There is no light only a honey-thick stain that drips from leaf to leaf and limb to limb spoiling the colors of the whole world- you far off there under the wine-red selvage of the west!
Composition:
- Set to music by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Love Song", copyright © 2004 [ 2 voices and 2 cellos ], from Vignettes - Trees, no. 7, confirmed with an online score
Text Authorship:
- by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), "Love song", appears in Al Que Quiero!, first published 1917
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-08-31
Line count: 17
Word count: 72