Softened by Time’s consummate plush, How sleek the woe appears That threatened childhood’s citadel and undermined the years. Bisected now, by bleaker griefs, We envy the despair That devastated childhood’s realm, so easy to repair.
Four Songs on Texts of Emily Dickinson
Song Cycle by James Sclater
Translated to:
German (Deutsch) — Vier Lieder nach Texten von Emily Dickinson (Bertram Kottmann)
1. Softened by Time’s consummate plush  [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, 1998.
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2. To make a prairie  [sung text checked 1 time]
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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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
3. Here, where the Daisies fit my Head  [sung text checked 1 time]
Here, where the Daisies fit my Head 'Tis easiest to lie And every Grass that plays outside Is sorry, some, for me. Where I am not afraid to go I may confide my Flower -- Who was not Enemy of Me Will gentle be, to Her. Nor separate, Herself and Me By Distances become -- A single Bloom we constitute Departed, or at Home --
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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4. Bee! I'm expecting you!  [sung text checked 1 time]
Bee! I'm expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due -- The Frogs got Home last Week -- Are settled, and at work -- Birds, mostly back -- The Clover warm and thick -- You'll get my Letter by The Seventeenth; Reply Or better, be with me -- Yours, Fly.
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Bolts of Melody, first published 1945
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , no title, copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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