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Come slowly, Eden! Lips unused to thee, Bashful, sip thy [jasmines]1, As the fainting bee, Reaching late his flower, Round her chamber hums, Counts his nectars - enters, And is lost in balms!
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View text without footnotes1 Hoekman: "Jessamines"
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), appears in Bolts of Melody, first published 1945 [author's text not yet checked 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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Eden", published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Quiet Airs, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Elizabeth Coard , "Apotheosis", copyright © 1984 [ piano and mezzo-soprano ], from Emily Dickinson Song Cycle , no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jodi Goble (b. 1974), "Come slowly" [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Valentines from Amherst, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "Come slowly, Eden", 1990, published 1992 [ voice and piano ], from American Lyrics, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philip Springer , "Come slowly, Eden", published 1966 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 34
Komm langsam, Paradies! Lippen, dir neu schlürfen deine Jasmine, wie die Biene - ermattend, scheu -, die spät zur Blüte kommt, und ihren Kelch umschwirrt, Nektare zählt - eintaucht und sich im Duft verliert!
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Translation of title "Apotheosis" = "Apotheose"Text Authorship:
- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2019 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), appears in Bolts of Melody, first published 1945
This text was added to the website: 2019-07-15
Line count: 8
Word count: 32
