Three poems by Emily Dickinson
Voice and orchestra
2004-2005 – 15mn
No recording available
I – Presentiment – is that long Shadow
II – It is dead – Find it
III – Great Streets of silence
Words
- I.
Presentiment – is that long Shadow – on the Lawn
Indicative that Suns go down -The Notice to the startled Grass
That Darkness – is about to pass – - II.
It is dead – Find it –
Out of sound – Out of sight –
“Happy”? Which is wiser –
You, or the Wind?
“Conscious”? Won’t you ask that –
Of the low Ground?”Homesick”? Many met it –
Even through them – This
Cannot testify –
Themself – as dumb – - III.
Great Streets of silence led away
To Neighborhoods of Pause –
Here was no Notice – no Dissent
No Universe – no Laws -By Clocks, ‘twas Morning, and for Night
The Bells at Distance called –
But epoch had no basis here
For Period exhaled.