by Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967)
There are/ No clocks on the wall
Language: English
There are No clocks on the wall, And no time, No shadows that move From dawn to dusk Across the floor. There is neither light Nor dark Outside the door. There is no door!
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Text Authorship:
- by Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967), "End", appears in Fields of Wonder, in Border Line, no. 16 [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 Robert Owens (1925 - 2017), "The end", op. 24 no. 16, published 1970 [ baritone and piano ], from Border Line, no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-26
Line count: 10
Word count: 34