© by Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014)
Tears
Language: English
Tears/ The crystal rags [ ... ]
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Confirmed with Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry, Random House Publishing Group, 2015, p 16
Text Authorship:
- by Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014), "Tears", appears in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, in Where love is the scream of anguish, no. 10, copyright © [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 Brittney Elizabeth Boykin (b. 1989), "Tears" [ voice and piano ], from Five Maya Angelou Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2025-11-16
Line count: 8
Word count: 20