by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Apparently with no surprise
Language: English
Apparently with no surprise To any happy flower, The frost beheads it at its play In accidental power. The blond assassin passes on, The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.
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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 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 Norman Dinerstein (b. 1937), "Apparently with no surprise", published 1961 [ soprano and string quartet ], from Four Settings for Soprano and String Quartet, no. 3, New York, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Apparently with no surprise", 2010 [ soprano and piano ], from Upon this Summer's Day -- 8 songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harris Lindenfeld (b. 1945), "Apparently with no surprise" [ soprano, e flat clarinet, and piano ], from 3 Dickinson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Senza apparente sorpresa", 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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