by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Sea slant
Language: English
On up the sea slant, On up the horizon, This ship limps. The bone of her nose fog-gray, The heart of her sea-strong, She came a long way, She goes a long way. On up the horizon, On up the sea-slant, She limps sea-strong, fog-gray. She is a green-lit night gray. She comes and goes in sea fog. Up the horizon slant she limps.
Text Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Sea slant", appears in Slabs of the Sunburnt West, first published 1922 [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 Henry Leland Clarke (1907 - 1992), "Sea slant", 1962 [soprano and violoncello], from Four Elements [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-18
Line count: 13
Word count: 64