by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Playmates
Language: English
God permits industrious angels Afternoons to play. I met one, — forgot my school-mates, All, for him, straightway. God calls home the angels promptly At the setting sun; I missed mine. How dreary marbles, After playing Crown!
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) [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 Valerie Saalbach (b. 1951), "Playmates" [ voice and piano ], from Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-10-12
Line count: 8
Word count: 37