by Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967)
Snail
Language: English
Little snail, Dreaming you go. Weather and rose Is all you know. Weather and rose Is all you see, Drinking The dewdrop's Mystery.
Text Authorship:
- by Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967), "Snail", appears in Fields of Wonder, first published 1947 [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 Günter Raphael (1903 - 1960), "Snail", published 1965 [ baritone, piano, oboe, percussion ], from My Dark Hands = Mein dunklen Hände, no. 2, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Paridam von dem Knesebeck (c1911 - 2000) , "Die Schnecke", appears in Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, first published 1953, copyright © and by Eva Hesse (1925 - 2020) , "Die Schnecke", appears in Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, first published 1953, copyright © ; composed by Günter Raphael.
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-28
Line count: 9
Word count: 23