The puritan's ballad

Song TitleThe puritan's ballad (Search)
Composer(s):John Woods Duke
Author(s):Elinor Wylie
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Alarms; Arms; Azure; Balance; Barnegat; Beauty; Bending; Blowing; Blue; Boats; Bothering; Bowing; Bright; Brown; Brows; Busy; Captains; Carefree; Cats; Claws; Clinking; Coiled; Comfort; Contentment; Copper; Couples; Courtship; Covering; Cream; Crowns; Cruel; Cutting; Deep; Descriptions; Devil; Dogs; Dragons; Dread; Dreams; Eternal Love; Eyes; Faces; Faithfulness; Falling; Falling in Love; Fear; Feathers; Feet; Fidelity; Fingers; First Love; Fishes; Fists; Flames; Folding; Foreign; Friends; Gales; God; Granting; Hair; Handkerchiefs; Hands; Happiness; Heads; Hearts; Heels; Hickories; Husbands; Ink; Kittens; Knives; Knuckles; Laying; Leaping; Lies; Limbs; Lions; Living; Logs; Love; Lovers; Manes; Marriage; Memories; Men; Missing; Moments; Names; Nervousness; Palms; Pans; Past; Paws; Pensive; Pigeons; Piles; Pines; Pins; Polished; Prayers; Quick; Reading; Recounting; Remembering; Reminiscing; Resting; Reunions; Rings; Sailing; Sailors; Sails; Scrolls; Seas; Separation; Seven; Seventy; Shaking; Shining; Ships; Silver; Sinking; Sleeping; Smooth; Snakes; Soft; Soon; Speaking; Springing; Stories; Strength; Sun; Teeth; Terrible; Terriers; Thanks; Thick; Thunder; Tigers; Time; Tortoiseshell; Touching; Traveling; Trees; Twenty; Unions; Veins; Velvet; Vows; Walking; Water; Wearing; Weddings; Weeks; Welding; Wild; Will; Winter; Wives; Wonderful; Wood Shavings; Worry; Wrinkles; Wrists; Years; Yellow; Youth
Year of composition 1946 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=74025
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: C4 - A5 (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceThe John Duke Collection: Songs for voice and piano (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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