by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
Our meeting was like the upward swish of...
Language: English
Our meeting was like the upward swish of a rocket In the blue night. I do not know when it burst; But now I stand gaping, In a glory of falling stars.
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Amy Lowell, Pictures of the floating world, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925, p.185
Text Authorship:
- by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925), no title, appears in Pictures of the Floating World, in Pyrotechnics, no. 1 [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 Tonia Ko (b. 1988), "Smoke and Distance", copyright © 2013 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Composers Edition
Publisher: Composers Edition [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
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