The sky is low, the clouds are mean

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems of Emily Dickinson, published 1890

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Anthony Iannaccone (1943-) , "The sky is low, the clouds are mean", published 1979. [chorus: mixed voices a cappella]
by Richard Kent , "The sky is low, the clouds are mean" [SSA chorus a cappella], from Autumn songs, no. ?

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