by Amy Katrina Blakemore (b. 1991)
You envied the stars their height
Language: English
The day folded; Like a Cabbage White closing its wings On a windowsill. With the old, worn-out risk, the unexplainable, skewed trigonometry of drunkenness you climbed the fire escape. Got on the roof. But once you were there, you envied the stars their height and could not get back down.
Text Authorship:
- by Amy Katrina Blakemore (b. 1991), appears in Humbert Summer, first published 2015 [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 Freya Waley-Cohen (b. 1989), "You envied the stars their height", 2018 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Happiness, no. 1
Score: Soundcloud [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2025-11-03
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