by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
She dealt her pretty words like Blades —
Language: English
She dealt her pretty words like Blades — How glittering they shone — And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone — She never deemed — she hurt — That — is not Steel's Affair — A vulgar grimace in the Flesh — How ill the Creatures bear — To Ache is human — not polite — The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom — Just locking up — to Die.
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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 Logan Skelton , "She dealt her pretty words like Blades", 2008 [ soprano and piano ], from Dickinson Songs, Book 2: The Unknown Peninsula, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2019-10-16
Line count: 12
Word count: 76