Three Portraits, music by David Edgar Walther
poems by William Butler Yeast; Linda Anne Cecil; and Emily Dickinson:
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1. Old Love: William Butler Yeats:

DavidEdgarWalther · Three Portraits: 1. The Romantic

​When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
William Butler Yeats

2. Young Love:  poem by Linda Anne Cecil:

DavidEdgarWalther · Three Portraits: 2. The Wild Beast

The aetherial fury of the wild beast
Surging freedom from thought
In a craze of nature's fire
Emotion unstayed
​And furious muddy mane 
Flashing irrationally in combat

And flames, water and power
Emerging from the depths
And the Sounds of fury fade.
(Peace)
Linda Ann Cecil

3. Secret Love: poem by Emily Dickinson:

DavidEdgarWalther · Three Portraits: 3. The Innocent

I'm Nobody! Who are you?                                        
Are you—Nobody—Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!

How dreary—to be—Somebody!
​How public—like a Frog--
To tell one's name—the livelong June--
To an admiring Bog!
Emily Dickinson