by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
I spot the hills
Language: English
I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. On the last of October When dusk is fallen Children join hands And circle round me Singing ghost songs And love to the harvest moon; I am a jack-o'-lantern With terrible teeth And the children know I am fooling.
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Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Theme in yellow", appears in Chicago Poems, first published 1916 [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 David M. Epstein (1930 - 2002), "Fall yellow", published 1962 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Scenes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Theme in yellow", 1989, first performed 1992 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Theme In Yellow -- 6 songs for Soprano (or Tenor) and Piano, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-17
Line count: 15
Word count: 63