by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Teach me your mood, O patient stars
Language: English
Teach me your mood, O patient stars Who climb each night, the ancient sky, leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.
Text Authorship:
- by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), appears in Poems, first published 1884 [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 Leslie R. Bassett (b. 1923), "Teach me your mood, O patient stars", published c1977, from Five Love Songs, no. 4. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 29