by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Losses
Language: English
I have love And a child, A banjo And shadows. (Losses of God, All will go And one day We will hold Only the shadows.)
Text Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Losses", appears in Chicago Poems, first published 1916 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Losses", 2013 [medium voice or low voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2017-11-14
Line count: 9
Word count: 26