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There came a Wind like a Bugle — It quivered through the Grass And a Green Chill upon the Heat So ominous did pass We barred the Windows and the Doors As from an Emerald Ghost — The Doom's electric Moccasin That very instant passed — On a strange Mob of panting Trees And Fences fled away And Rivers where the Houses ran Those looked that lived — that Day — The Bell within the steeple wild The flying tidings told — How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the World!
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 Gordon Getty (b. 1933), "There came a wind like a bugle" [ soprano and piano ], from The White Election - A Song Cycle for soprano and piano on 32 poems of Emily Dickinson, Part 4 : My Feet Slip Nearer, no. 28 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011), "There came a wind like a bugle", from Four Dickinson Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leon Kirchner (b. 1919), "1683", 1982 [ soprano and piano ], from The Twilight Stood, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Ernst Bacon, Milton Bliss, Martin Butler, Aaron Copland, Thomas Pasatieri, George Perle.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2017-05-02
Line count: 17
Word count: 95
Ein Wind kam auf wie Hornsignal, er rüttelte die Flur, durch Hitze zog ein frostig Grün unheilvoll seine Spur. Wir sperrten Tür und Fenster zu als käm’ ein grüner Geist- des Unheils blitzgelad’ner Schuh zog eben jetzt vorbei. Auf Bäume, ächzend und bizarr, auf Zäune, fortgeweht, auf Flüsse, wo einst Häuser war’n konnte, wer lebte, sehn. Die Sturmglocke hat wild gegellt, kündigt von Ort zu Ort - was auch passiert auf dieser Welt, sie dauert dennoch fort!
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
This text was added to the website: 2017-06-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 76