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by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

O
Language: English 
O that awful deepdown torrent 
O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire 
and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes 
and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue 
and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine 
and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl 
where I was a Flower of the mountain yes 
when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used 
or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall 
and I thought well as well him as another 
and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes 
and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower 
and first I put my arms around him yes 
and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes 
and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Text Authorship:

  • by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), appears in Ulysses, first published 1922 [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 Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967), "O", 2017, first performed 2025 [ soprano ], from O, Yes & I, no. 1, Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
        Score: WiseMusic Classical [external link]  [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-10-26
Line count: 15
Word count: 168

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