by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
For you there is no song
Language: English
For you there is no song, Only the shaking of the voice that meant to sing, The sound of the strong voice breaking. Strange in my hand appears the pen, And yours broken There are ink and tears on the page. Only the tears have spoken.
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in Huntsman, What Quarry?, first published 1939 [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 H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932), "For you there is no song", copyright © 1976 [mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano], from Five Millay Songs, no. 3. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-01-10
Line count: 7
Word count: 46