Icicles filled the long window

by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)

Icicles filled the long window

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

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Text Authorship:

by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), appears in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 6, first published 1917 [author's text not yet checked 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 Boris Blacher (1903 - 1975), "Icicles filled the long window", 1957 [ voice and string quartet ], from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 6, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Lukas Foss (b. 1922), "Icicles filled the long window", 1978, copyright © 1980 [ soprano, piano, flute, 2 tapes, and percussion ], from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 6, New York, Pembroke [sung text checked 1 time]
by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), "Icicles filled the long window", 1947, published 1951, from 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Louise Juliette Talma (1906 - 1996), "Icicles filled the long window", 1979 [ tenor or soprano, oboe, flute or violin, and piano ], from 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 7
Word count: 27