O beautiful Forever! O grandiose Everlasting! Now, now, now, I break you into pieces, I feed you to the ground. O brilliant, O languishing Cycle of weeping light! The mice and birds will eat you And you will spoil their stomachs As you have spoiled my mind. Here, mice, rats, Porcupines and toads, Moles, shrews, squirrels, Weasels, turtles, lizards,-- Here's a bright Everlasting! Here's a crumb of Forever! Here's a crumb of Forever!
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Text Authorship:
- by Louise Bogan (1897 - 1970), "I saw Eternity" [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 William Bolcom (b. 1938), "I saw Eternity", 1990, first performed 1991 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by David Evan Thomas (b. 1958), "I saw Eternity", 2002 [ soprano, harp ], from By Heart, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-11-02
Line count: 17
Word count: 73