by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972)
Make me, my streaming face, a glory;...
Language: English after the Unknown Language
Make me, my streaming face, a glory; bloom, unseen weeping! [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with Paul Goodman, The Dead of Spring, Libertarian Press, 1950, p.171
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Unknown Language by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Make me, my streaming face", 1954-1955 [ soprano, SATB chorus, and orchestra ], from The Poet's Requiem, no. 2, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
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