© by Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979)
View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress Matches base text
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- Set to music by Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (1908 - 2012), "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress", published 1977 [ soprano and chamber orchestra ], from A mirror on which to dwell, no. 5
Text Authorship:
- by Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979), "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress", appears in Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring, first published 1955, copyright ©
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