by Evelyn Scott (1893 - 1963)
Snow Dance
Language: English
Black brooms of trees sweep the sky clean;
Sweep the house fronts,
And leave them bleak in sleep.
High up the empty moon
Spills her vacuity.
I dance.
My long black shadow
Weaves an invisible pattern of pain.
The snow
Is embroidered with my happiness.
Confirmed with Evelyn Scott, Precipitations, The Project Gutenberg, 2003
Text Authorship:
- by Evelyn Scott (1893 - 1963), "Snow Dance", appears in Precipitations, first published 1920, copyright status unknown [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 Rachel Devore Fogarty , "Snow Dance", 2017 [ mezzo-soprano, flute and harp ], from Manhattan: The Unpeopled City and Crowds, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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