To a young girl (Yeats, set by (Ned Rorem, Stephen Wilkinson)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

To a young girl

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE

My dear, my dear I know
More than another 
What makes your heart beat so;
Not even your own mother
Can know it as I know, 
Who broke my heart for her
When the wild thought, 
That she denies
And has forgot,
Set all her blood astir
And glittered in her eyes.

Confirmed with W. B. Yeats, Later Poems, Macmillan and Co., London, 1926, page 254.

Authorship

by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "To a young girl", appears in Nine Poems, appears in The Wild Swans at Coole, first published 1918 [author's text checked 2 times 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 (b. 1923), "To a young girl", published 1972. [voice and piano] [
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by Stephen Wilkinson (b. 1919), "To a young girl" [voice and piano], from the collection Eternal Summer, no. 8. [
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Researcher for this text: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 52