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by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)

Your face is beautiful
Language: English 
Your face is beautiful beyond all other faces;
Beyond all music and all poetry
Your face is beautiful to me.
I am reminded always of sea beaches
That lately have been laved with storm
And have no more to show
Now to the searcher than one shell, like snow,
Fluted more deep than shallow-water shells--
Your face is beautiful beyond all other faces,
More to me now than dear remembered places,
More to me now than anything I know.

Text Authorship:

  • by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) [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 Garth Baxter (b. 1946), "Your face is beautiful" [voice,guitar] [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Garth Baxter

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 79

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