by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Approach Strong Deliveress! See original
Language: English
Our translations: FRE
...
Approach, strong Deliveress,
When it is so, when thou hast taken them, I joyously sing the dead,
Lost in the loving, floating ocean of thee,
Laved in the flood of thy bliss, O Death.
Composition:
- Set to music by George Crumb (1929 - 2022), "Approach Strong Deliveress!", stanza 5, from Apparition - Elegiac Songs and Vocalises, no. 4
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Death carol", appears in Memories of President Lincoln, in When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, no. 16
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Ahmed E. Ismail , Gustav Ringel
This text was added to the website: 2005-01-13
Line count: 28
Word count: 259