by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Exhilaration is the Breeze
Language: English
Exhilaration is the Breeze That lifts us from the Ground, And leaves us in another place Whose statement is not found -- Returns us not, but after time We soberly descend A little newer for the term Upon Enchanted Ground --
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in The Single Hound, first published 1914 [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 Christopher Culpo (b. 1960), "Exhilaration is the Breeze", from Emilygrams, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923 - 2006), "Exhilaration is the breeze", published 1963 [ SSAA chorus and piano or chamber orchestra ], from An Emily Dickinson Mosaic [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "L'entusiasmo è come una brezza", copyright © 2009, (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.
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Word count: 40