There came a wind like a bugle | There came a Wind like a Bugle —

There came a Wind like a Bugle —

Language: English

Our translations: GER

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 verified 1 time]
by Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011), "There came a wind like a bugle", from Four Dickinson Songs, no. 4. [ sung text verified 1 time]
by Leon Kirchner (b. 1919), "1683", 1982 [soprano and piano], from The Twilight Stood, no. 6. [ sung text verified 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Ernst Bacon, Milton Bliss, Martin Butler, Aaron Copland, Thomas Pasatieri, George Perle.

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-05-02
Line count: 17
Word count: 95