by Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911 - 1968)
The Trouble With Geraniums
Language: English
The trouble with geraniums is that they're much too red! The trouble with my toast is that it's far too full of bread. The trouble with a diamond is that it's much too bright. The same applies to fish and stars and the electric light. The troubles with the stars I see lies in the way they fly. The trouble with myself is all self-centred in the eye. The trouble with my looking-glass is that it shows me, me; there's trouble in all sorts of things where it should never be.
Text Authorship:
- by Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911 - 1968), "The trouble With geraniums", appears in A Book of Nonsense, first published 1972 [author's text not yet checked 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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "The Trouble With Geraniums", 2008 [ voice and piano ], from A Book of Nonsense, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-03-05
Line count: 16
Word count: 91