by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides - You may have met Him - did you not His notice sudden is The Grass divides as with a Comb - A spotted shaft is seen - And then it closes at your feet And opens further on - He likes a Boggy Acre A floor too cool for Corn Yet when a [Boy]1, and Barefoot - I more than once at [Noon]2 Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun When stooping to secure it It wrinkled and was gone - Several of Nature's People I know, and they know me - I feel for them a transport Of cordiality - But never met this Fellow Attended, or alone Without a tighter breathing And Zero at the Bone -
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 2, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 1096 (Version B).
1 Holmes: "child"
2 Holmes: "morn"
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 Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "A narrow fellow in the grass" [ treble chorus and piano ], from Emily's Day, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "The Snake", 1997/2002, published 2007 [ high voice and piano ], from An Amherst Bestiary, no. 18, Peters Edition [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Brian Holmes , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-06-18
Line count: 24
Word count: 132