by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
To Love
Language: English
Take me, and break me, Love; Make me into a thing More memorable than a star, Or a tall flower in spring. If this you will not do, Down to oblivion thrust; Into a sleek, forgotten grave, Crumble me to dust!
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Text Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "To Love", appears in Wild Cherry [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "To Love", op. 152 (Five Songs) no. 5 (1942) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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