by Annie Crim Leavenworth (1887 - 1954)
Wild geese
Language: English
The wild geese flew to the South last night. I heard their honk as they steered them past, And my wild heart leaped to their arrow-flight; But the night was dark, and the geese fly fast. A bugle note through the windless sky - More clear, more loud, then more faint, more low. They left no trace I could follow by, For there's never a track where the wild geese go. And I was swept with a quick despair As fainter echoed their speeding calls, For their wings were swift on the pathless air, While my heart's wings beat against four gray walls.
Confirmed with Annie Crim Leavenworth, Wild Geese and Other Poems, New York: James T. White & Co., 1921, page 13.
Authorship:
- by Annie Crim Leavenworth (1887 - 1954), "Wild geese", appears in Wild Geese and Other Poems, New York: James T. White & Co., first published 1921 [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 Rhéa Silberta (1900 - 1951), "Wild geese", published 1921, copyright © 1921 [sung text not yet checked]
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