2019
Lake-Song (op. 135, no. 1)
Composed by 
Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann Text by 
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Jean Starr Untermeyer Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135 Song Collection
"Lake-Song" is the first song of Lowell Liebermann's song cycle Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer,, op. 135.
Text
Lake-Song
By Jean Starr Untermeyer
The lapping of lake water
Is like the weeping of women,
The weeping of ancient women
Who grieved without rebellion.
The lake falls over the shore
Like tears on their curven bosoms.
Here is languid, luxurious wailing;
The wailing of kings’ daughters.
So do we ever cry,
A soft, unmutinous crying,
When we know ourselves each a princess
Locked fast within her tower.
The lapping of lake water
Is like the weeping of women,
The fertile tears of women
That water the dreams of men.