© by Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974)
The starry night
Language: English
The town does not exist [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974), copyright © [author's text not yet checked 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 Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "The starry night", 2001, first performed 2001 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from The Starry Night, no. 1. [text not verified]
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "The starry night", op. 114 no. 1 (2002), from Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 108