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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

There came a wind like a bugle
Language: English 
Our translations:  CAT FRE GER ITA
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
The living looked that day,

The bell within the steeple wild,
The flying tidings whirled.
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, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "A wind like a bugle", published 1971 [ SSAA chorus and piano ], from Nature [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "A wind like a bugle", published 1944 [ voice and piano ], from Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Milton Bliss , "There came a wind like a bugle" [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Martin Butler (b. 1960), "There came a wind", published 1985 [ soprano, clarinet, and piano ], from Three Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 2, Oxford, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990), "There came a wind like a bugle", 1949-50, published 1951 [ mezzo-soprano, piano ], from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Thomas Pasatieri (b. 1945), "There came a wind like a bugle", published 1976 [ soprano, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano ], from Far from love, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by George Perle (1915 - 2009), "There came a wind like a bugle", 1977 [ voice and piano ], from Thirteen Dickinson Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Gordon Getty, Lee Hoiby, Leon Kirchner.

  • Go to the text. [ view differences ] GER

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Vingué un vent com un clarí", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Alors vint un vent comme un clairon", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 88

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