by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath See original
Language: English
... Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. ...
Composition:
- Set to music by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath", 1997, published 1999, lines 5-8, from Evidence of Things Not Seen, no. 12
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Sonnet XXX", appears in Fatal Interview, first published 1931
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This text was added to the website: 2004-08-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 124