by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Although you sit in a room that is gray
Language: English
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Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or lift one of the green beads Of your necklace, To let it fall; Or gaze at your green fan Printed with the red branches of a red willow; Or, with one finger, Move the leaf in the bowl -- The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia Beside you... What is all this? I know how furiously your heart is beating.
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Text Authorship:
- by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955) [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 Sarah Lianne Lewis (b. 1988), "Although you sit in a room that is gray", 2013/2015, first performed 2015 [ baritone and piano ], Inspired by Wallace Stephen’s poem [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ellen Mandel , "Gray room" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2017-02-21
Line count: 16
Word count: 87