little elegy
Instrumentation: voice and piano
Poem by: Elinor Wylie
Duration: 2 minutes
Composed: 2015
Commissioned by: SubCulture Arts Underground, New York
Premiere: April 28, 2015 by Adriana Zabala (mezzo-soprano) and Gregg Kallor at SubCulture New York
Little Elegy
Without you
No rose can grow;
No leaf be green
If never seen
Your sweetest face;
No bird have grace
Or power to sing;
Or anything
Be kind, or fair,
And you nowhere.
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