© by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
A Prelude
Language: English
I know only the bare rocks of today [ ... ]
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Confirmed with William Carlos Williams, A Book of Poems, Al Que Quiere!, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. : The Four Seas Press, 1917, p.36
Text Authorship:
- by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), "A Prelude", appears in Al Que Quiero!, copyright © 1917 [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), "A Prelude" [ soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion ], from Wanderer Moon, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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