by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
You cannot put a Fire out
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
You cannot put a Fire out - A Thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a Fan - Opon the slowest night - You cannot fold a Flood - And put it in a Drawer - Because the Winds would find it out - And tell your Cedar Floor -
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Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956), "You cannot put a Fire out", first performed 2000 [ soprano and piano ], from Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 5, Carl Fischer Music [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2021-03-17
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Word count: 51