by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Beat me a crown of bluer metal
Language: English
Beat me a crown of bluer metal; Fret it with stones of a foreign style: The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while. Weave me a robe of richer fibre; Pattern its web with a rare device: Give away to the child of a neighbour This gold gown I was glad in twice. But buy me a singer to sing one song — Song about nothing — song about sheep — Over and over, all day long; Patch me again my thread-bare sleep.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title [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 Eric Ewazen (b. 1954), "A Crown of Bluer Metal", 1987 [ low voice and piano ], from Songs of Love and Loss, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-05-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 90