Belshazzar had a letter, - He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondent Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.
Three Poems by Emily Dickinson
Song Cycle by Jean Berger, né Arthur Schloßberg (1909 - 2002)
Word count: 127
?. Belshazzar had a letter  [sung text not yet checked]
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
?. Answer July  [sung text not yet checked]
Answer July -- Where is the Bee -- Where is the Blush -- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July -- Where is the Seed -- Where is the Bud -- Where is the May -- Answer Thee -- Me -- Nay -- said the May -- Show me the Snow -- Show me the Bells -- Show me the Jay! Quibbled the Jay -- Where be the Maize -- Where be the Haze -- Where be the Bur? Here -- said the Year --
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Unpublished poems of Emily Dickinson [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]?. To make a prairie  [sung text not yet checked]
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.
Authorship
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- 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