by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
A prairie sunset
Language: English
A prairie sunset: Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn, The earth’s whole amplitude and nature’s multiform power consigned for once to colors; The light, the genial air possessed by them; colors till now unknown, no limit, confine; not the Western sky alone; the high meridian; North, South, all, pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) [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 Silvan Loher (b. 1986), "A prairie sunset", op. 6 no. 4 [voice and piano], from Ten Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 4. [ sung text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Tino Brütsch
This text was added to the website: 2018-01-08
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