by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Earth my likeness!
Language: English
Earth! my likeness! Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, I now suspect that is not all; I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible to burst forth; For an athlete is enamour'd of me -- and I of him; But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth, I dare not tell it in words -- not even in these songs.
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) [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 Noël Lee (1924 - 2013), "Earth my likeness!", 1976 [soprano or tenor, clarinet, violoncello, percussion, and piano], from Songs of Calamus, no. 6. [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ton van der Steenhoven
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-14
Line count: 7
Word count: 70