by Conrad Aiken (1889 - 1973)
I would like to touch this snow with the...
Language: English
I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream, With a sudden warmth of music, and turn it all To petals of roses ... Why is it that I recall Your two pale hands holding a bowl of roses, Wide open like lotos flowers, floating in water? I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream; To hold the world in my hands and let it fall. We have walked among the hills immortally white, Golden by noon and blue by night. I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream: And hear you singing again by a starlight wall ...
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Text Authorship:
- by Conrad Aiken (1889 - 1973), no title, appears in Nocturne of Remembered Spring and Other Poems, no. 4, first published 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 Bainbridge Crist (1883 - 1969), "White nocturne", published 1942. [medium voice and piano] [text not verified]
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