by Maurice Denton (1915 - 1948)
Dreams Melting
Language: English
What are you in the morning when you wake? A quacking duck, a quacking drake? A golden bear who climbs in honeyed trees? A horde of wasps whose striped, chrome bodies teaze The liquid air which plays about their wings? Or are you some tall peacock bird that sings Like devil Paganini's violin Held tight beneath his devil's pointed chin?
Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Denton (1915 - 1948) [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 Howard Ferguson (1908 - 1999), "Dreams Melting", from Discovery, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website: 2004-07-07
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