Peter Wishart: A Book of Beasts (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart.
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.

First published in Magazine of Art, July 1884
Input by Barbara Miller

?. Bird of Paradise

Language: English

Authorship

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

Man Does, Woman Is


At sunset, only to his true love
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?. Cat-Goddesses

Language: English

Authorship

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

New Yorker


A perverse habit of cat-goddesses
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?. Flying crooked

Language: English

Authorship

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

Poems 1926-1930


The butterfly, a cabbage-white
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