by Emily Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913)
Know by the Thread of Music
Language: English
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Know by the thread of music woven through This fragile web of cadences I spin, That I have only caught these songs since you Voiced them upon your haunting violin.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913), subtitle: "(Inscribed to One Beyond Seas)", appears in Flint and Feather, in Autumn's Orchestra, first published 1912 [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 Ingrid Stölzel (b. 1971), "Know by the Thread of Music", 2018, copyright © 2018 [ soprano, violin and piano ], from To One Beyond Seas, no. 1, Composers Edition
Publisher: Composers Edition [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-08-25
Line count: 4
Word count: 30