by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Stranger, if you passing, meet me
Language: English
Stranger, if you passing, meet me, And desire to speak to me, Why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "To you" [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 Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "To you" [ voice and piano ], from Love in a Life, no. 6a [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "To you" [ voice and piano ], from Love in a Life, no. 6b [sung text not yet checked]
- by Silvan Loher (b. 1986), "To you", op. 6 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Ten Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "Stranger", op. 103 no. 1, published 1967 [ chorus and woodwinds ], from Celebrations: Cantata no. 3, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "To you", published 1965 [ voice and piano ], from 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Clifford Shaw (1911 - 1976), "To you", published 1952 [ medium voice and piano ] [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: 4
Word count: 27