by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Look, Edwin! Do you see that boy
Language: English
Look, Edwin! Do you see that boy Talking to the other boy? No, over there by the two men -- Wait, don't look now -- now look again. No, not the one in navy-blue; That's the one he's talking to. Sure you see him? Stripèd pants? Well, he was born in Paris, France.
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Authorship
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, appears in Poems Selected for Young People, in From a Very Little Sphinx, no. 5, first published 1929 [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 John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Look, Edwin", 1971 [soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano], from From a Very Little Sphinx: Five Songs for Soprano or Mezzo-soprano, no. 5. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by Michael Armand Fink (b. 1939), "From a very little sphinx", published 1969. [soprano, SSAA chorus, and string quartet or strings]
- by Bernard Wagenaar (1894 - 1971), "From a very little sphinx", published 1926. [soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 51