by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Paumanok
Language: English
Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking! One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails, And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance. Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil! Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), appears in Leaves of Grass, in Sea-Drift [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 Benjamin Lees, né Benjamin George Lisniansky (1924 - 2010), "Paumanok", 1980, first performed 1980 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Russell Platt (b. 1965), "Paumanok", copyright © 2006 [ soprano and piano ], from cantata From Noon to Starry Night - A Walt Whitman Cantata, no. 3, Fort Tryon Press [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-10-15
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