by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
Life in her creaking shoes
Language: English
Life in her creaking shoes Goes, and more formal grows, A round of calls and cues: Love blows as the wind blows. Blows! in the quiet close As in the roaring mart, By ways no mortal knows Love blows into the heart. The stars some cadence use, Forthright the river flows, In order fall the dews, Love blows as the wind blows. Blows! and what reckoning shows The courses of his chart? A spirit that comes and goes, Love blows into the heart.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in A Book of Verses, first published 1888 [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 George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885 - 1916), "Life in her creaking shoes
", 1911-2 [baritone and string quartet], from Love blows as the wind blows, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 83