Little Elegy

"Little Elegy" is a setting of a poem by Eleanor Wylie with music by Jonathan Bailey Holland. This setting is scored for high voice and piano and was published in 2002.

Date: 2002Composer: Jonathan Bailey HollandText: Elinor Wylie

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    Withouten 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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