Thought For A Sunshiny Morning - (1989)  

Dorothy Parker

for medium high voice

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It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm....
 

This text remains under copyright and is therefore not fully reproduced as a stand-alone text herein.

 

  [ 1 page, circa 35" ]

 

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Dorothy Parker

 

Five song settings of her poetry are titled the Love Songs of Dorothy Parker (including a short biography), and a page for another one-page song, Marie of Roumania, are at those links.

 

Given that death and humor about this most normal human experience is ubiquitous across poets, I found this short four-line stanza amusing, and set it to a gentle step-wise chordal accompaniment.