© by Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Desolate is the roof where the cat sat
Language: English
Desolate is the roof where the cat sat [ ... ]
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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.Confirmed with Ezra Pound and Dorothy Pound, Shakespear’s Pound: Illuminated Cantos, Nacogdoches, TX : LaNana Creek Press, 1999
Text Authorship:
- by Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), "Canto XXXIX", appears in Shakespear’s Pound: Illuminated Cantos, copyright © [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 Sheila Silver (b. 1946), "CANTO", 1979, first performed 1979 [ baritone and instrumental ensemble ] [sung text not yet checked]
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