by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Siege
Language: English
This I do being mad, Gather baubles about me. Sit in a circle of toys, And all this time Death beating the door in. White jade ... and an orange pitcher, Hindu idol, Chinese god, May-be next year when I am richer Carved beads ... and a lotus pod. And all this time Death beating the door in.
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), "Siege", 1940, published 1942, first performed 1941 [low voice, piano], from Seven American Poems, no. 2. [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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