by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
To kiss her! 'Tis with musk‑perfume to...
Language: English
To kiss her! 'Tis with musk-perfume to grow Drunken with joy -- delirium to know! To feel her body bend 'neath my embrace, See the carved marble of her lily face! To kiss her! I am drunk who have no wine -- Wild ecstasy, wild ecstasy divine! Dizzy at eve, at sundown my heart sips The perfumed nectar of her lips, her lips!
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Confirmed with Charles Hanson Towne, The Quiet Singer And Other Poems, New York, B. W. Dodge & Company, 1908, page 110.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949), no title, appears in The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, in Songs out of the Orient, in 84. A Baghdad Lover (Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade’s Songs in “The Thousand and One Nights”), no. 2 [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 Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "To Kiss Her!", op. 25 no. 2, published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from A Baghdad lover, no. 2, New York : H.W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-02-03
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