by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Humoresque
Language: English
"Heaven bless the babe!" they said. "What queer books she must have read!" (Love, by whom I was beguiled, Grant I may not bear a child.) "Little does she guess to-day What the world may be!" they say, (Snow, drift deep and cover Till the spring my murdered lover.)
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), "Humoresque", 1940, published 1980 [ voice and piano ], from Two American Poems, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jay Poûhe (b. 1935), "Humoresque", published 1971 [ medium voice and piano ], from The Amorous Line, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 49