There came a wind like a bugle (Dickinson, set by (Ernst Bacon, Milton Bliss, Martin Butler, Aaron Copland, Thomas Pasatieri, George Perle)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

There came a wind like a bugle

Language: English

Available translation(s): 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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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 verified 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 verified 1 time]
by Milton Bliss , "There came a wind like a bugle" [SSA chorus a cappella] [ sung text not verified ]
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 verified ]
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 verified 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 verified ]
by George Perle (1915 - 2009), "There came a wind like a bugle", 1977 [voice and piano], from Thirteen Dickinson Songs, no. 4. [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

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