by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Nature" is what we see
Language: English
"Nature" is what we see -- The Hill -- the Afternoon -- Squirrel -- Eclipse -- the Bumble bee -- Nay -- Nature is Heaven -- Nature is what we hear -- The Bobolink -- the Sea -- Thunder -- the Cricket -- Nay -- Nature is Harmony -- Nature is what we know -- Yet have no art to say -- So impotent Our Wisdom is To her Simplicity.
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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 721 (Version A).
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 2 times 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 Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "Nature is what we see", 2002, published 2008 [chorus and orchestra], from Songs for the Earth, no. 1, Seesaw/Subito ; texts by Emily Dickinson, Omar Khayyám, Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Hildegard von Bingen, Mary Oliver [ sung text verified 1 time]
- by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "Afterword", 1997/2002, published 2007 [high voice and piano], from An Amherst Bestiary, no. 19, Peters Edition [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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