by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Loam
Language: English
In the loam we sleep, In the cool moist loam, To the lull of years that pass And the break of stars, From the loam, then, The soft warm loam, We rise: To shape of rose leaf, Of face and shoulder. We stand, then, To a whiff of life, Lifted to the silver of the sun Over and out of the loam A day.
Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Loam", appears in Cornhuskers, first published 1918 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Loam", 2013 [mezzo-soprano and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901 - 1953), "Loam", 1929, published 1929, first performed 1930 [contralto and piano], from Five Songs, no. 4 [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-12-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 64