by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
I gambled with a silver money
Language: English
I gambled with a silver money. The dried seed-vessels of “honesty” Were stacked in front of me. Dry, white years slipping through my fingers One by one. One by one, gathered by the Croupier. “Faites vos jeux, Messieurs.” I staked on the red, And the black won. Dry years, Dead years; But I had a system, I always staked on the red.
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Text Authorship:
- by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925), no title, appears in Pictures of the Floating World, in Dreams in War Time, no. 3, first published 1919 [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 Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "I gambled with a silver money", 2003, first performed 2011 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Dreams in War Time -- 7 songs for Mezzo and Piano, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-03-25
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Word count: 62