by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
These are the tawny days: your face...
Language: English
These are the tawny days: your face comes back. The grapes take on purple: the sunsets redden early on the trellis. The bashful mornings hurl gray mist on the stripes of sunrise. Creep, silver on the field, the frost is welcome. Run on, yellow balls on the hills, and you tawny pumpkin flowers, chasing your lines of orange. Tawny days: and your face again.
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Text Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Tawny", 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 Elinor Remick Warren (1900 - 1991), "Tawny Days", published 1950 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Singing Earth, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-07
Line count: 7
Word count: 64