by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Spring storm
Language: English
The sky has given over its bitterness. Out of the dark change all day long rain falls and falls as if it would never end. Still the snow keeps its hold on the ground. But water, water from a thousand runnels! It collects swiftly, dappled with black cuts a way for itself through green ice in the gutters. Drop after drop it falls from the withered grass-stems of the overhanging embankment.
Text Authorship:
- by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), "Spring storm", appears in Sour Grapes: a Book of Poems, first published 1921 [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 Robin Holloway (b. 1943), "Spring storm", op. 32 no. 3 (1977), published 1978 [tenor and piano], from This is just to say, no. 3, London ; New York : Boosey & Hawkes [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-31
Line count: 17
Word count: 72