by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The cricket sang
Language: English
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. A vastness, as a neighbor, came, — A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home, — And so the night became.
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "Evening", appears in Poems: Third Series, in 3. Nature, no. 24 [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 Olga Amelkina-Vera (b. 1976), "The Cricket Sang, and Set the Sun", 2014 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Emily’s Garden, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2026-02-08
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Word count: 69