To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.
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Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "To make a prairie", 1940-44, published 1944 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "If bees are few" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Clover", 1944 [ voice and piano ], from Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean Berger, né Arthur Schloßberg (1909 - 2002), "To make a prairie", published 1973 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Three Poems by Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martin Butler (b. 1960), "To make a prairie", published 1985 [ soprano, clarinet, and piano ], from Three Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 3, Oxford, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Escher (1912 - 1980), "To make a prairie it takes a clover", 1955, published 1956 [ mixed chorus of 7-10 voices ], from Songs of Love and Eternity, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "To make a prairie", 1999, first performed 1998 [ soprano, flute, violin, cello, and piano ], from From Emily's Garden, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "To make a prairie", 2002, published 2006 [ voice and piano ], from To Make a Prairie, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ronald Perera (b. 1941), "To make a prairie", published 1976 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano, piano ], from Five Summer Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rhian Samuel (b. 1944), "To make a prairie", 1989, first performed 1989 [ mixed chorus ], from Lovesongs and Observations, no. 2, Stainer & Bel [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Sclater , "To make a prairie", 1972 [ soprano and clarinet ], from Four Songs on Texts of Emily Dickinson, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 27
Wiese braucht per se eine Biene und ’nen Klee,
’ne Biene, einen Klee,
Tagtraums Idee.
Alleinig diese macht sie wahr,
wenn Bienen rar.
