by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Undying love to buy
Language: English
Undying love to buy I wrote upon The corners of this eye All wrongs done. What payment were enough For undying love? I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "His confidence", appears in The Winding Stair, first published 1929 [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 Arthur Victor Berger (b. 1912), "His confidence", published 1950 [ voice, flute, clarinet, violoncello ], from Three Poems of Yeats [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "XI. His Confidence", 2020, copyright © 2020 [ baritone and piano ], from Selections from 'Words for Music Perhaps', no. 4, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 51