by Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1928)

Language: English 
Our translations:  GER
Withouten you
No rose can grow;
No leaf be green
If never seen
Your sweetest face;
No bird have grace
Or pow'r to sing;
Or anything
Be kind, or fair,
And you nowhere.

Composition:

    Set to music by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Little elegy", 1946, published 1959 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Two songs, no. 1, G. Schirmer

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Klagelied", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Ted Perry , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 35