1958

Songs

Composed by Robert Owens

Silver Rain, Op. 11 Song Collection

"Songs" is the sixth song in Robert Owens' cycle "Silver Rain" which is a setting of Langston Hughes poems for Tenor.

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“Songs”

By Langston Hughes

I sat there singing her
Songs in the dark.

She said,
I do not understand
The words.

I said,
There are
No words.