by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962)
a wind has blown the rain away and blown
Language: English
a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long
(and what have you to say,
wind wind wind -- did you love somebody
and have you the petal of somewhere in your heart
pinched from dumb summer?
O crazy daddy
of death dance cruelly for us and start
the last leaf whirling in the final brain
of air!)Let us as we have seen see
doom's integration... a wind has blown the rain
away and the leaves and the sky and the
trees stand:
the trees stand. The trees,
suddenly wait against the moon's face.
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Text Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 2. Chimneys, in 2. Sonnets - Unrealities, no. 5, first published 1923 [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 Margaret Garwood (1927 - 2015), "A wind has blown the rain away", published 1963 [ soprano and piano ], from Lovesongs: 6 Songs to Poems of E. E. Cummings [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andrew Welch Imbrie (1921 - 2007), "A wind has blown the rain away", published 1970 [ SAB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jeffrey Thomas King , "A wind has blown the rain away", 1969, published 1971 [ SATB chorus and piano ], Winner of the Brown University Choral Prize ; Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ellen Mandel , "a wind has blown the rain away" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin Roxburgh (b. 1937), "a wind has blown the rain away", from 3 songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Chinary Ung (b. 1942), "a wind has blown the rain away and blown", published 1975 [ voice, flute, oboe, guitar, and violoncello ], from Tall Wind [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-05-12
Line count: 17
Word count: 114