by William Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929)
Hour by hour I sit
Language: English
Hour by hour I sit, Watching the silent door. Shadows go by on the wall, And steps in the street. Expectation and doubt Flutter my timorous heart. So many hurrying home— And thou still away.
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Confirmed with Bliss Carman, Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, Outlook Verlag, 2018
Text Authorship:
- by William Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929), no title, appears in Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, no. 77, freely reconstructed from fragmentary sources, not a true translation [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 William Baines (1899 - 1922), "A lyric (The vigil)", 1919, first performed 1956 [ voice and piano ], from Five songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
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