by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Lingering last drops
Language: English
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And whence and why come you? We know not whence, (was the answer,) We only know that we drift here with the rest, That we linger'd and lagg'd--but were wafted at last, and are now here, To make the passing shower's concluding drops.
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Lingering last drops", c1960-8 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leif Segerstam (b. 1944), "Lingering Last Drops", published 1967 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Leaves of Grass, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 43