by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
South winds jostle them
Language: English
South winds jostle them, Bumblebees come, Hover, hesitate, Drink, and are gone. Butterflies pause On their passage Cashmere; I, softly plucking, Present them here!
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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 Ronald Perera (b. 1941), "South winds jostle them", published 1976 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano, piano ], from Five Summer Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 24