On this long storm (Dickinson, set by A. Farwell) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


On this long storm the rainbow rose,
On this late morn the sun;
The clouds, like listless elephants,
Horizons straggled down. 

The birds rose smiling in their nests,
The gales indeed were done;
Alas! how heedless were the eyes
On whom the summer shone! 

The quiet nonchalance of death
No daybreak can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.

Authorship

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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

Arthur Farwell (1872-1952)

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