by Angelina Weld Grimké (1880 - 1958)
Little Grey Dreams
Language: English
Little grey dreams, I sit at the ocean's edge, At the grey ocean's edge, With you on my lap. I launch you, one by one, And one by one, Little grey dreams, Under the grey, grey clouds, Out on the grey, grey sea, You go sailing away, from my empty lap, Little grey dreams. Sailing! sailing! Into the black At the horizon's edge.
Confirmed with The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2, Rutgers University Press, 2003, p.172
Text Authorship:
- by Angelina Weld Grimké (1880 - 1958), "Little Grey Dreams", written 1924 [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 Benton Brittney (b. 1999), "Little Grey Dreams", 2022 [ soprano and piano ], from Only in Dreams, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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