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