My Phoenix
Text by 
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Jean Starr Untermeyer Songs of Job’s Daughter Song Collection
My Phoenix is the final song from Winifred Hyson's Songs of Job's Daughter song cycle with original text by Jean Starr Untermeyer.
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My Phoenix
By Jean Starr Untermeyer
My phoenix stands before me plumed in light,
He lifts his wings and spreads them to my sight,
This way and that way, wildly in the night,
He turns a human face and says in fright,
“Only from ashes can I make my flight.”
Records
2017
Up Toward the Sky
Amy Marcy Beach, William Ernest Henley, Richard Hundley, Marianne Moore, James Purdy, Edward Rowland Sill, Gertrude Stein, Sara Teasdale, Virgil Thomson