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by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

A Winsome Woman
Language: English 
There's no winsome woman so winsome as she;
  Some are flower-like in mouth,
  Some have fire in the eyes,
  Some feed a soul's drouth
  Trilling words music-wise;
But where are these gifts all in one found to be
  Save in her known to me?

What her thoughts are I read not, but this much I know,
  That she, too, will pass
  From the sun and the air
  To her cave under grass;
  And the world will declare,
"No such woman as his passioned utterances show
  Walked this planet, we trow!"

Text Authorship:

  • by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "A winsome woman", appears in Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, first published 1928 [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 Derek Healey (b. 1936), "A Winsome Woman", op. 13 no. 2 (1961) [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Five Thomas Hardy Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2013-12-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 90

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