by (Harold) Hart Crane (1899 - 1932)
Infinite consanguinity it bears —
Language: English
Infinite consanguinity it bears — This tendered theme of you that light Retrieves from sea plains where the sky Resigns a breast that every wave enthrones; While ribboned water lanes I wind Are laved and scattered with no stroke Wide from your side, whereto this hour The sea lifts, also, reliquary hands. And so, admitted through black swollen gates That must arrest all distance otherwise, — Past whirling pillars and lithe pediments, Light wrestling there incessantly with light, Star kissing star through wave on wave unto Your body rocking! and where death, if shed, Presumes no carnage, but this single change, — Upon the steep floor flung from dawn to dawn The silken skilled transmemberment of song; Permit me voyage, love, into your hands ...
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Authorship:
- by (Harold) Hart Crane (1899 - 1932), no title, appears in White Buildings, in Voyages, no. 3, first published 1926 [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 Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (1908 - 2012), "Voyage", published 1945. [high voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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This text was added to the website: 2019-01-10
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Word count: 125