by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
The Philosopher
Language: English
And what are you that, wanting you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that’s a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women’s ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell, — And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in A Few Figs from Thistles [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 Timothy Hoekman , "The Philosopher", 1990, published 1992 [ voice and piano ], from American Lyrics, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2020-08-27
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Word count: 100