by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
A Clock Stopped See original
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 —
Composition:
- Set to music by Michael Ippolito (b. 1985), "A Clock Stopped", 2018 [ soprano and piano ], from Vanitas, no. 3, confirmed with a score
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Third Series, in 4. Time and Eternity, no. 53
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 76