by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 - 1966)
Youth
Language: English
The dew is on the grasses, dear, The blush is on the rose, And swift across our dial-youth, A shifting shadow goes. The primrose moments, lush with bliss, Exhale and fade away, Life may renew the Autumn time, But nevermore the May!
Text Authorship:
- by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 - 1966), from The Book of American Negro Poetry, 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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Youth", 2007, from Four Songs of a Woman, no. 3 [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 42