by Edith Alice Mary Harper (1884 - 1947), as Anna Wickham
The Return
Language: English
She gave me tears, A rain to wash the dust of years, A silence for disharmony, For jaggèd wounds a remedy, Green windy downs for fœtid towns For slums sweet-scented closes, And for the thorn of her blest scorn I gave her thorny ros
Text Authorship:
- by Edith Alice Mary Harper (1884 - 1947), as Anna Wickham, appears in The Man With a Hammer, first published 1916 [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 Tonia Ko (b. 1988), "The Return", 2020, copyright © 2020 [ baritone and piano ], Composers Edition
Publisher: Composers Edition [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-11-06
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