© by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995)
The sick wife
Language: English
The sick wife stayed in the car [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), appears in Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, copyright © 1996 [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 William Bolcom (b. 1938), "The sick wife", 1996, first performed 1996 [ soprano and piano ], from Briefly It Enters, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "The sick wife", 1997, published 1999, from Evidence of Things Not Seen, no. 25 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2004-08-04
Line count: 18
Word count: 103