by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Hard, chilly colors
Language: English
Hard, chilly colors: straw grey, frost grey the grey of frozen ground: and you, O sun, close above the horizon! It is I holds you -- half against the sky half against a black tree trunk icily resplendent! Lie there, blue city, mine at last -- rimming the banked blue grey and rise, indescribable smoky yellow into the overpowering white!
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Text Authorship:
- by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), "Conquest", 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 Robin Holloway (b. 1943), "Conquest (Begun)", op. 32 no. 12 (1977), published 1978 [tenor and piano], from This is just to say, no. 12, London ; New York : Boosey & Hawkes [text not verified]
- by Robin Holloway (b. 1943), "Conquest (Concluded)", op. 32 no. 14, published 1978 [tenor and piano], from This is just to say, no. 14, London ; New York : Boosey & Hawkes [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-31
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Word count: 58