by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Language: English
Our translations: CHI
Silver bark of beech, and sallow Bark of yellow birch and yellow Twig of willow. Stripe of green in moosewood maple, Colour seen in leaf of apple, Bark of popple. Wood of popple pale as moonbeam, Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam, Wood of hornbeam. Silver bark of beech, and hollow Stem of elder, tall and yellow Twig of willow.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Counting-out rhyme" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "Twig of willow", 1969 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], revised 2000 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2017-04-20
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