© by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
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- Set to music by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "I strolled across an open field", published 1969 [ voice and piano ], from Two Poems of Theodore Roethke, no. 1
Text Authorship:
- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "The waking", appears in The Lost Son and Other Poems, first published 1948, copyright ©
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