by Humbert Wolfe (1885 - 1940)
The Old Lady
Language: English
The old, old lady, that nobody knows, sits in the Garden shelter, and sews. Save for her restless fingers she is cold and still as ivory. The chestnut-blossom, blown on her dress, seems only a sculptor's cleverness
Confirmed with Humbert Wolfe, in: Twentieth-century poetry, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929, p.256
Text Authorship:
- by Humbert Wolfe (1885 - 1940), "The old Lady" [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 Phyllis Batchelor (1915 - 1999), "The Old Lady", copyright © 2023 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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