by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
A bell in the wind
Language: English
The sun goes out, and leaves To the young dusk a cry, The cry of one who grieves And is like to die. There the old houses stand Down the sunken road; It clutches them like hand At throat; it drives like goad. Along the salmon dusk A hundred hurts of life; Around and through it all, The smell of the wild musk Is sharp as any knife.
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Text Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "A bell in the wind", 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), "A bell in the wind", op. 163 (Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 2 (1947) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-01-22
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