by Richard Kendall Munkittrick (1853 - 1911)
Ghosts
Language: English
Out in the misty morning The first snowflakes I see As they frolic beneath The leafless boughs of the apple tree. Faintly they seem to whisper As round a boughs they wing; "We are the ghosts of flowers Who died in the early spring."
Authorship:
- by Richard Kendall Munkittrick (1853 - 1911) [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 Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 - 1972), "Ghosts", published 1889 [voice and piano], Schmidt [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Nich Roehler
This text was added to the website: 2012-05-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 44