by Louise Bogan (1897 - 1970)
Last Song
Language: English
Goodbye, goodbye! There was so much to love, I could not love it all; I could not love it enough. Some things I overlooked, and some I could not find. Let the crystal clasp them When you drink your wine, in autumn.
Text Authorship:
- by Louise Bogan (1897 - 1970), appears in After the Persian, first published 1937 [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 John Musto (b. 1954), "Last Song", from Recuerdo, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Musto
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 42