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.
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.
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