by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
She sweeps with many‑colored brooms
Language: English
She sweeps with many-colored brooms, And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond! You dropped a purple ravelling in, You dropped an amber thread; And now you 've littered all the East With duds of emerald! And still she plies her spotted brooms, And still the aprons fly, Till brooms fade softly into stars -- And then I come away.
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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 Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "She sweeps with many-colored Brooms", 1987 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "She sweeps with many-colored brooms", 2002, published 2006 [ voice and piano ], from To Make a Prairie, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-09-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 68