by Nadejda de Bragança, Princess (1910 - 1946)
Ships
Language: English
I want to lie, still as the sea at even, and like the sea to watch the ships, beneath a darkening heaven, sail over me vessels of dream and hope and aspiration across the deep return, to anchor off a shadowy station whose port is sleep. But there is one my wandering waves may boast of the whole night through, a spectral craft that bears the grieving ghost of my love to you.
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), "Ships" [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 73