by (Harold) Hart Crane (1899 - 1932)
Interior
Language: English
It sheds a shy solemnity, This lamp in our poor room. O grey and gold amenity, -- Silence and gentle gloom! Wide from the world, a stolen hour We claim, and none may know How love blooms like a tardy flower Here in the day's after-glow. And even should the world break in With jealous threat and guile, The world, at last, must bow and win Our pity and a smile.
Authorship:
- by (Harold) Hart Crane (1899 - 1932) [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), "Interior", copyright © 2010 [tenor and piano], from 4 Songs to Poems by Hart Crane, no. 2, confirmed with an online score [ sung text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-30
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