by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Departed to the judgment
Language: English
Departed to the judgment, A mighty afternoon; Great clouds like ushers leaning, Creation looking on. The flesh surrendered, cancelled, The bodiless begun; Two worlds, like audiences, disperse And leave the soul alone.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [author's text not yet checked 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 Peter Dickinson (b. 1934), "Departed to the judgment", published 1974 [ vocal sextet of 2 altos, 2 tenors, and 2 basses, and contrabass ], from cantata Winter Afternoons [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 32