by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Visor'd
Language: English
A mask, a perpetual [disguiser]1 of herself, Concealing her face, concealing her form, Changes and transformations every hour, every moment, Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
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1 Schonthal: "disguise"
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1 Schonthal: "disguise"
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Visor'd" [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 Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), "Visor'd", 1975, published 1979 [ soprano and piano ], from By the Roadside: Six Songs to Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 3, Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2005-10-12
Line count: 4
Word count: 27