The Queen's Face on the Summery Coin (op. 18, no. 1)

"The Queen's Face on the Summery Coin" is the first song of Two Songs, opus 18.

Date: 1942Composer: Samuel BarberText: Robert HoranSong Collection: Two Songs, Op. 18

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    The Queen’s Face on the Summery Coin
    by Robert Horan

    The queen’s face on the summery coin
    Was never golden nor more regal,
    Than his body’s bright and busting bugle
    Where once it walked between the stripes of rain.

    The birds swing in their apply cages
    And the solid sun will walk
    Through straw houses where honey rages,
    Churning the light to chalk.

    The wind shines on the woody grove.
    We live in a copper clock where on the hour
    A polished bell divides the stem and flow’r
    And drains the ghost-built body of its love.

    Like the deaf, list’ning for a silence that follows no sound,
    Or the sick, swung in the balance between wound and wound;
    There is too much eye to see
    All but the nearest disorder.

    In the sable shadow of this harbor
    He lies him down among the singing bees.

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    Samuel Barber: 65 Songs (G. Schirmer, high voice)

    Composer(s): Samuel Barber

    Voice Type: High

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    Samuel Barber: 65 Songs (G. Schirmer, medium-low voice)

    Composer(s): Samuel Barber

    Voice Type: Medium/Low

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