by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
After a hundred years
Language: English
Our translations: GER
After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony that enacted there Motionless as peace. Weeds triumphant ranged; Strangers strolled and spelled At the lone orthography Of the elder dead. Winds of summer fields Recollect the way, Instinct picking up the key Dropped by memory.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "After a hundred years" [low voice and piano] [ sung text not verified ]
- by Gordon Getty (b. 1933), "After a hundred years" [soprano and piano], from The White Election - A Song Cycle for soprano and piano on 32 poems of Emily Dickinson, Part 3 : Almost Peace, no. 22. [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2011-01-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 45