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Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender

35 songs
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2005
Album
Jun 2005
Songs of Ourselves

1 track

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Album
Jun 2005
Songs of Ourselves

1 track

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1966
Single
Jan 1966
The Express
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Single
Jan 1966
The Express
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Top Songs

#1
The Pylons (XXVIII)
#2
oh young men oh young comrades (XXll)
#3
Polar Exploration
#4
Seascape
#5
‘That girl who laughed and had black eyes’
#6
The Double Shame
#7
The Express
#8
The Express (XXVI)

About Stephen Spender

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Songs of Ourselves
1 track · 2005

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The Pylons (XXVIII)

The secret of these hills was stone, and cottages Of that stone made, And crumbling roads That turned on sudden hidden villages Now over the…

oh young men oh young comrades (XXll)

oh young men oh young comrades it is too late now to stay in those houses your fathers built where they built you to build to breed money on…

Polar Exploration

Our single purpose was to walk through snow With faces swung to their prodigious North Like compass iron. As clerks in whited Banks With bir…

Seascape

THERE are some days the happy ocean lies Like an unfingered harp, below the land. Afternoon gilds all the silent wires Into a burning music …

‘That girl who laughed and had black eyes’

That girl who laughed and had black eyes Spoke here ten days ago. She smiles Still in my though; the lip still promises That body lives, and…

The Double Shame

You must live through the time when everything hurts When the space of the ripe, loaded afternoon Expands to a landscape of white heat froze…

The Express

After the first powerful, plain manifesto The black statement of pistons, without more fuss But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station…

The Express (XXVI)

fter the first powerful plain manifesto The black statement of pistons, without more fuss But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station. …

The Past Values

Alas for the sad standards In the eyes of the old masters Sprouting through glaze of their pictures! For what we stare at through glass Open…

Nocturne

Their six-weeks-old daughter lies in her cot, crying out the night. Their hearts Are sprung like armies, waiting To cross the gap to where h…

Discography at a glance

35

Songs on Lyrks

1

Albums

34

Singles

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Stephen Spender is a music artist with 35 songs on Lyrks.

Popular tracks by Stephen Spender include The Pylons (XXVIII), oh young men oh young comrades (XXll), Polar Exploration, Seascape, ‘That girl who laughed and had black eyes’. Browse full lyrics on Lyrks.

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