In Tall Grass (Sandburg, set by R. Crawford-Seeger, W. Mellers) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head
	  of a horse in a pasture corner -- a skull
	  in the tall grass and a buzz and a buzz
	  of the yellow honey-hunters. 

 And I ask no better [a] winding sheet
	  (over the earth and under the sun). 

 Let the bees go honey-hunting with yellow
	  blur of wings in the dome of my head, 
	  in the rumbling, singing arch of my skull. 

 Let there be wings and yellow dust and the
	  drone of dreams of honey -- who loses
	  and remembers? -- who keeps and
	  forgets? 

 In a blue sheen of moon over the bones
	  and under the hanging honey comb 
	  the bees come home and the bees sleep.

Input by John Versmoren

Authorship

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901-1953)

Three Songs

Wilfrid Howard Mellers (1914-)

Chants and Litanies of Carl Sandburg

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