by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
A Clock Stopped
Language: English
A Clock stopped — Not the Mantel's — Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing — That just now dangled still — An awe came on the Trinket! The Figures hunched, with pain — Then quivered out of Decimals — Into Degreeless Noon — It will not stir for Doctors — This Pendulum of snow — This Shopman importunes it — While cool — concernless No — Nods from the Gilded pointers — Nods from the Seconds slim — Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life — And Him —
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Michael Ippolito (b. 1985), "A Clock Stopped", 2018 [ soprano and piano ], from Vanitas, no. 3, confirmed with a score [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-08-19
Line count: 18
Word count: 91