by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
A girl's mood
Language: English
I love a prayer-book; I love a thorn-tree That blows in the grass As white as can be. I love an old house Set down in the sun, And the windy old roads That thereabout run. I love blue, thin frocks; Green stones one and all; A sky full of stars, A rose at the fall. A lover I love; Oh, had I but one, I would give him all these, Myself, and the sun!
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "A girl's mood", 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 girl's mood", op. 165 (Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 2 (1948) [ 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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Word count: 75