by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
Brambles and Dusk
Language: English
Turn me to fagot, dusk, To heap your fire! Oh, tear me through and through, White daggers of the brier! I may not keep you long; Before I go, Oh, fill me full of you; I shall not miss you so!
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Text Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "Brambles and Dusk", 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), "Brambles and Dusk", op. 154 (Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 4 (1943) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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