by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!
Language: English
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing! How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!) Flag cerulean! sunny flag! with the orbs of night dappled! Ah my silvery beauty! ah my woolly white and crimson! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty! My sacred one, my mother.
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Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Delicate cluster" [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 Ronald Lo Presti (b. 1933), "Tribute", published 1962 [SATB chorus, piano, and band], NY : C. Fischer ; text adapted [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-04-20
Line count: 8
Word count: 71