by Waring Cuney (1906 - 1976)
No Images
Language: English
She does not know her beauty, she thinks her brown body has no glory. If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the river, she would know. But there are no palm trees on the street, and dish water gives back no images.
Text Authorship:
- by Waring Cuney (1906 - 1976), "No Images" [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 Dorothy Rudd Moore (1940 - 2022), "No Images", 1972 [ mezzo-soprano, cello, piano ], from From the Dark Tower, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Owens (1925 - 2017), "No Images", op. 15 no. 2 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Songs for a high voice and piano, no. 2, with a German translation by Erika Berghöfer-Engen [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Paridam von dem Knesebeck) (Eva Hesse) , "Die Negerin", appears in Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, copyright ©
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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-26
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Word count: 48