A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown – Who ponders this tremendous scene – This whole Experiment of Green – As if it were his own!
1. A little Madness in the Spring [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "1333/1356"
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]2. Bee! I'm expecting you! [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
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.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Bolts of Melody, first published 1945
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , no title, copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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3. A narrow Fellow in the Grass [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides - You may have met Him - did you not His notice sudden is The Grass divides as with a Comb - A spotted shaft is seen - And then it closes at your feet And opens further on - He likes a Boggy Acre A floor too cool for Corn Yet when a [Boy]1, and Barefoot - I more than once at [Noon]2 Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun When stooping to secure it It wrinkled and was gone - Several of Nature's People I know, and they know me - I feel for them a transport Of cordiality - But never met this Fellow Attended, or alone Without a tighter breathing And Zero at the Bone -
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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 1096 (Version B).
1 Holmes: "child"
2 Holmes: "morn"
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Total word count: 211