A White Blossom
Composed by 
Gardner Read
Gardner Read Four Nocturnes, op. 23 Song Collection
"A White Blossom" is the second song from Gardner Read's Four Nocturnes, op. 23 and sets the poetry of Vail Read, his wife, to music.
Text
A White Blossom
by Vail Read
A fragile bud, as white as jade,
on a single jasmine flow’r,
Perfumes the night outside my window
this warm silken hour.
Hush’d as snow in early evening,
Melting as a warbler’s song in rain,
It shines, a small white peace in the dark:
Beauty’s breath, muting pain.
Records
1999
Gardner Read: The Art of Song
William Blake, Frances Frost, James Joyce, Gardner Read, Henry Russell, Rabindranath Tagore, Jean Starr Untermeyer