Forever
- Music by Florence Price
- Text by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Forever" is an undated song by Florence Price setting a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Forever
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
I had not known before
“Forever” was so long a word.
The slow stroke of the clock of time
I had not heard.
‘Tis hard to learn so late.
It seems no sad heart really learns
But hopes and trusts and doubts
And fears and bleeds and burns.
The night is not all dark
Nor is the day all it seems
But each may bring me this relief:
My dreams.
I had not known before
That “never” was so sad a word.
So wrap me in forgetfulness
I have not heard.
RELATED INFORMATION
- REC Music: Florence Price songs
- AfriClassical.com: Florence Price
- University of Arkansas: Florence Price
- The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
- “Song to the Dark Virgin”: Race and Gender in Five Art Songs of Florence B. Price (Master of Music Thesis, CCM)
- WQXR: Florence Price, "The Price of Admission" with Terrance McKnight
