Song

I make my shroud but no one knows,
So shimmering fine it is and fair,
With stitches set in even rows.
I make my shroud but no one knows.

In door-way where the lilac blows,
Humming a little wandering air,
I make my shroud and no one knows,
So shimmering fine it is and fair.

by Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) , "Song", from Verse, published 1915

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

by Lee Hoiby (1926-) , "The shroud", from Night Songs, no. 4.
by Harrison Kerr (1897-1978) , "Triolet", from Six Songs for Voice and Piano to Poems by Adelaide Crapsey, no. 1.
by John C. Sacco (1905-1987) , "Where the lilac blows", published 1941 [high voice, piano], from Three Songs
by Hugo Weisgall (1912-) , "Song", op. 1 no. 2, published 1940 [soprano, piano], from Four Songs, no. 2.

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