by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing
Language: English
As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing, Or the sower sowing in the fields -- or the harvester harvesting, I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies: (Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
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Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing" [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 Philip Dalmas , "As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Four Songs from Whitman [sung text checked 1 time]
- by William Harold Neidlinger (1863 - 1924), "Life and Death", published 1900 [ baritone or mezzo-soprano, piano ], from Two Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alan Burrage Stout (b. 1932), "The harvest according", 1971 [ baritone and piano ], from Three Whitman Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Eugene Ward (1917 - 2013), "As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing", published 1951 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2005-07-06
Line count: 4
Word count: 38