That is Solemn We Have Ended

Song Cycle by Meredith Tompkins

Score: Carl Fischer (external link)

1. That is Solemn We Have Ended  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
That is solemn we have ended,—
     Be it but a play,
Or a glee among the garrets,
     Or a holiday,

Or a leaving home; or later,
     Parting with a world
We have understood, for better
     Still it be unfurled.

Text Authorship:

Go to the general single-text view

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

2. Dawn  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Not knowing when the Dawn will come,
I open every Door,
Or has it Feathers, like a Bird,
Or Billows, like a Shore –

Text Authorship:

See other settings of this text.

Confirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. Note: in this edition, the nouns are not capitalized and there is a question-mark at the end of the poem instead of an em-dash. Nemtsov uses the later version shown above.


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 63