by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The wind
Language: English
Our translations: GER
The Wind took up the Northern Things And piled them in the south -- Then gave the East unto the West And opening his mouth The four Divisions of the Earth Did make as to devour While everything to corners slunk Behind the awful power -- The Wind -- unto his Chambers went And nature ventured out -- Her subjects scattered into place Her systems ranged about Again the smoke from Dwellings rose The Day abroad was heard -- How intimate, a Tempest past The Transport of the Bird --
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), appears in Bolts of Melody, first published 1945 [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 Leonard Berkowitz (b. 1926), "The wind", published 1968 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Four Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-06-03
Line count: 16
Word count: 85