by Hilda Doolittle (1886 - 1961)
Sea Poppies
Language: English
Amber husk fluted with gold, fruit on the sand marked with a rich grain, treasure spilled near the shrub-pines to bleach on the boulders: your stalk has caught root among wet pebbles and drift flung by the sea and grated shells and split conch-shells. Beautiful, wide-spread, fire upon leaf, what meadow yields so fragrant a leaf as your bright leaf?
Text Authorship:
- by Hilda Doolittle (1886 - 1961), appears in Sea Garden, Aldington, London: Constable and Company, Ltd., first published 1916 [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), "Sea Poppies", 2009 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rachel Devore Fogarty , "Sea Poppies", 2016 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-11-23
Line count: 17
Word count: 60