Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass -- innocent, golden,
calm as the dawn,
[ ... ]
Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)
Song Cycle by Rick Sowash (b. 1950)
1. The first dandelion  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "The first dandelion", appears in Leaves of Grass
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. A noiseless patient spider  [sung text checked 1 time]
A noiseless, patient spider, I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself; Ever unreeling them -- ever tirelessly speeding them. And you, O my Soul, where you stand, Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, -- seeking the spheres, to connect them; Till the bridge you will need, be form'd -- till the ductile anchor hold; Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "A noiseless patient spider", appears in Leaves of Grass, first published 1900
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]3. A Farm Picture  [sung text checked 1 time]
Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "A farm-picture", appears in Leaves of Grass, first published 1900
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Confirmed with Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Philadelphia: David McKay, [c1900].
Researcher for this page: Thomas A. Gregg