Featured on: Bell Tower
Collaborator: Sara Teasdale (poet)
Song Type: art song, soprano, very short song
Associated Artists: Kate Baldwin
Poem by Sara Teasdale:
Buildings above the leafless trees
Loom high as castles in a dream,
While one by one the lamps come out
To thread the twilight with a gleam.
There is no sign of leaf or bud,
A hush is over everything—
Silent as women wait for love,
The world is waiting for the spring.
