by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
The return from town
Language: English
As I sat down by Saddle Stream To bathe my dusty feet there, A boy was standing on the bridge Any girl would meet there. As I went over Woody Knob And dipped into the Hollow, A youth was coming up the hill Any maid would follow. Then in I turned at my own gate, - And nothing to be sad for - To such a man as any wife Would pass a pretty lad for.
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in The Harp-Weaver and other poems [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 H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932), "The return from town", from Five Millay Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "The return from town", 1940, published 1980 [ voice and piano ], from Two American Poems, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Thomas B. Briccetti (b. 1936), "The return from town", from Millaydy's Madrigals [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. Robert Carroll , "The return from town", published 1968, from Songs of the Heart [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "The return from town", 1980 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Southern/Texas [sung text not yet checked]
- by Constance Mills Herreshoff , "The return from town", published 1928 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "The return from town", 2009, published 2011 [ voice and piano ], from Five Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "The return from town", op. 51 (Five Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay) no. 5 (1983) [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 76