by Nadejda de Bragança, Princess (1910 - 1946)
Song of darkness
Language: English
I am weary and torn by the restless and lingering pain waking and yearning and sleeping and waking again. I am sick of the flow of the hours, of life and its things, of summers and autumns and winters and cloying springs. I am bored by the forests and mountains, and rivers and downs, distressed by the noise and confusion and dirt of the towns. Even death at the end is uncertain, the grave is unclean How I envy the nothing that is not and never has been!
Authorship:
- by Nadejda de Bragança, Princess (1910 - 1946), appears in Poems for Music [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 Alexandre Tansman (1897 - 1986), "Song of darkness" [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 88