by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Softened by Time’s consummate plush
Language: English
Our translations: GER
Softened by Time’s consummate plush, How sleek the woe appears That threatened childhood’s citadel and undermined the years. Bisected now, by bleaker griefs, We envy the despair That devastated childhood’s realm, so easy to repair.
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Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, 1998.
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 James Sclater , "Softened by Time’s consummate plush", 1972 [soprano and clarinet], from Four Songs on Texts of Emily Dickinson, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2016-03-13
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Word count: 35