I like to get off with people, I like to lie in their arms, I like to be held and tightly kissed, Safe from all alarms. I like to laugh and be happy With a beautiful beautiful kiss, I tell you, in all the world There is no bliss like this.
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Confirmed with The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith Edited by James MacGibbon Penguin Books 1985 page 179
Text Authorship:
- by Stevie Smith (1903 - 1971), "Conviction (iv)" [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 Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Conviction (IV)", copyright © 2008 [ soprano, strings ], from Love's Little Pleasures, no. 3, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
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