Snow whispering down All day long, Earth has vanished Leaving only sky
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Confirmed with Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn, Haiku harvest Japenese Haiku series IV, Peter Pauper Press, Incorporated, 2013
Text Authorship:
- by Peter Beilenson (1905 - 1962), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- by Harry Behn (1898 - 1973), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Naitō Jōsō (1662 - 1704) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Margaret Garwood (1927 - 2015), "Snow", published 1967 [ voice, clarinet or flute, piano ], from Six Japanese Songs, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-12-24
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