by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
The Petunia
Language: English
Purple! for months unknown but for the barren sky. A purple trumpet fragile as our hopes from the very sand saluting us.
Authorship:
- by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963) [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 Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "The Petunia", copyright © 2002 [chorus and viola or violoncello], from vignettes - flowers, no. 2, confirmed with an online score [ sung text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-04-11
Line count: 10
Word count: 22