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O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you?
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- by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), appears in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 7, first published 1917 [author's text not yet checked 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 Lukas Foss (b. 1922), "O thin men of Haddam", 1978, copyright © 1980 [soprano, piano, flute, 2 tapes, and percussion], from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 7, New York, Pembroke [text verified 1 time]
- by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), "O thin men of Haddam", 1947, published 1951, from 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 7. [text not verified]
- by Louise Juliette Talma (1906 - 1996), "O thin men of Haddam", 1979 [tenor or soprano, oboe, flute or violin, and piano], from 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 7. [text not verified]
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title unknown, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title unknown, copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Ô minces hommes d'Haddam, Pourquoi imaginez-vous des oiseaux dorés ? Ne voyez-vous pas comment le merle Marche autour des pieds Des femmes près de vous ?
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- Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2014 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in English by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), appears in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 7, first published 1917
Text added to the website: 2014-02-06 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:05:28
Line count: 5
Word count: 26