by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
The runner
Language: English
On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner; He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs; He is thinly clothed--he leans forward as he runs, With lightly closed fists, and arms partially rais'd.
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "The runner", appears in Leaves of Grass [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ronald A. Beckett , "The runner", 2015 [ voice and strings ], from By the roadside, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leon Kirchner (b. 1919), "The runner", 1950 [ soprano and piano ], from Three Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2014-01-13
Line count: 4
Word count: 33