by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Language: English
Tears! tears! tears!
In the night, in solitude, tears,
On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand,
Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,
Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head;
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Composition:
- Set to music by Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905 - 1963), "Tears", 1936, lines 1-5 [ alto and orchestra ], from Symphony No. 1, Versuch eines Requiems, no. 3, revised 1955
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Tears"
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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
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Word count: 123