© by Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012)
You sleeping I bend to cover
Language: English
You sleeping I bend to cover [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Text Authorship:
- by Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012), "The crib", appears in Necessities of Life, in Night-Pieces: for a Child, no. 1, first published 1966, copyright © [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 Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (b. 1941), "For a Child: The Crib", 1975 [soprano, piano, vibraphone], from Herstory I, no. 4a [ sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2007-08-17
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Word count: 60