© by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
I strolled across
Language: English
I strolled across [ ... ]
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- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "The waking", appears in The Lost Son and Other Poems, first published 1948, copyright © [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 Judith Cloud (1954 - 2023), "The waking" [ soprano, mezzo-soprano, or tenor and guitar ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "The waking" [ voice and piano ], from Love in a Life, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "I strolled across an open field", published 1969 [ voice and piano ], from Two Poems of Theodore Roethke, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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