by Harold Morland (1908 - 1999)
I bend to the rose
Language: English
I bend to the rose. Its silence speaks what God above me knows.
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An excerpt from "The Cloud Messenger", no. 8 of 90 items, page 38. The book is still copyright, but this is such a short excerpt that we believe it falls under fair use / fair dealings law so we have shown the sung text in full.
Authorship:
- by Harold Morland (1908 - 1999), no title, appears in My Seeking Spirit, Being Free Variations on Poems by Kalidasa, c. 500 A.D., first published 1966 [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 Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Frammento cantato", KSS 88 (1967), published 2007, first performed 2014 [voice and piano], Bath, The Sorabji Archive; critical edition [ sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-04
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Word count: 13