by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Sometimes with one I love
Language: English
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love -- the pay is certain, one way or another; I loved a certain person ardently, my love was not return'd; Yet out of that I have written these songs.
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 Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Sometimes with one I love", from Five Poems of Walt Whitman, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Craig Urquhart (b. 1953), "Sometimes with one I love" [ voice and piano ], from Leaves. Songs on Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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