by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
Holiday
Language: English
Some dusk within a silver wood, A narrow wood of the wild pear, A hundred trees in a windy rood, I shall be tall, I shall be fair. Wild pear will strew me foot and head With white, like samite wrought of old For troubled women lying-dead In falling towns, curious with gold. The pools will show me my changed face, With all its April back again, A silver thing in a silver place And yet unsung by singing men. At dusk, it will be very good To have not any tears to weep; At last, within a wild pear wood, To turn to silence and to sleep.
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Text Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "Holiday", 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), "Holiday", op. 154 (Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 5 (1943) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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