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by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

Calls
Language: English 
Because I have called to you
as the flame flamingo calls,
or the want of a spotted hawk
is called --
  because in the dusk
the warblers shoot the running
waters of short songs to the
homecoming warblers --
  because
the cry here is wing to wing
and song to song --

  I am waiting,
waiting with the flame flamingo,
the spotted hawk, the running water
warbler --
  waiting for you.

Text Authorship:

  • by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Calls", appears in Smoke and Steel, first published 1920 [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 Walter H. Golde (1887 - 1963), "Calls", published 1944 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-07-07
Line count: 16
Word count: 67

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