Blazing in gold and quenching in Purple,
Leaping like Leopards to the Sky
Then at the feet of the old Horizon
Laying her spotted Face to die;
Stooping as low as the [Otter's]1 Window,
Touching the Roof and tinting the Barn,
Kissing her Bonnet to the Meadow, --
And the Juggler of Day is gone.

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¹ Farwell: "kitchen"; in another version of Dickinson: "oriel"

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [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 Arthur Farwell (1872 - 1952), "Blazing in gold" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964), no title, 2002, first performed 2002 [ solo soprano, SATB chorus and orchestra ], from Chanting to Paradise, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964), "Juggler of Day", 2007, first performed 2007 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Karen Wimhurst (b. 1960), "Blazing in gold", first performed 2004 [ chorus ], from A Letter to the World, no. 2 [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

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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