Not all the knives of the lamp-posts, Nor the chisels of the long streets, Nor the mallets of the domes And high towers, Can carve What one star can carve, Shining through the grape-leaves.
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Confirmed with Others: a magazine of the new verse, V. II, No. 3, Mar 1916.
Text Authorship:
- by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Six significant landscapes, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Claire Brook (1925 - 2012), "Not all the knives of the lamp-posts", copyright © 1995 [ voice and piano ], from Four songs; from Six Significant Landscapes, no. 4, In: Art songs by American women composers ; v. 8. , San Antonio, Tex. : Southern Music [sung text not yet checked]
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