by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
The wind shifts
Language: English
This is how the wind shifts: Like the thoughts of an old human, Who still thinks eagerly And despairingly. The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her. The wind shifts like this: Like humans approaching proudly, Like humans approaching angrily. This is how the wind shifts: Like a human, heavy and heavy, Who does not care.
Text Authorship:
- by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), "The wind shifts", appears in Harmonium, first published 1917 [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 Robin Holloway (b. 1943), "The wind shifts", op. 14 no. ? (1970) [high voice and strings], from The Wind Shifts: Eight Poems of Wallace Stevens for High Voice and Strings [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2012-02-19
Line count: 13
Word count: 65