by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Love song
Language: English
I lie here thinking of you: -- the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves, smears with saffron the horned branched the lean heavily against a smooth purple sky! There is no light only a honey-thick stain that drips from leaf to leaf and limb to limb spoiling the colors of the whole world- you far off there under the wine-red selvage of the west!
Text Authorship:
- by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), "Love song", appears in Al Que Quiero!, 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 Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Love Song", copyright © 2004 [2 voices and 2 cellos], from Vignettes - Trees, no. 7, confirmed with an online score [ sung text verified 1 time]
- by Robin Holloway (b. 1943), "Love song", op. 32 no. 5 (1977), published 1978 [tenor and piano], from This is just to say, no. 5, London ; New York : Boosey & Hawkes [ sung text not verified ]
- by Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "Love song", 1973. [soprano and piano] [ sung text not verified ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-08-31
Line count: 17
Word count: 72