A pocket of time (Bishop, set by L. Hoiby) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


We lived in a pocket of Time. 
It was close, it was warm. 
Along the dark seam of the river 
the houses, the barns, the two churches, 
hid like white crumbs 
in a fluff of gray willows and elms, 
till Time made one of his gestures; 
his nails scratched the shingled roof. 
Roughly his hand reached in, 
and tumbled us out.

Authorship

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

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

Lee Hoiby (1926-)

Date added to the website: 2009-10-08.

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