by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Feast
Language: English
I drank from ev'ry vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst. I gnawed at ev'ry root. I ate of ev'ry plant. I came upon no fruit So wonderful as want. Feed the grape and bean to the vintner and monger, I will lie down lean with my thirst and my hunger.
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in The Harp-Weaver and other poems, first published 1923 [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 Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "Feast", 1940, published 1942, first performed 1941 [voice and piano], from Seven American Poems, no. 3. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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