The Thrill came slowly like a Boon for Centuries delayed Its fitness growing like the Flood In sumptuous solitude- The desolation only missed While Rapture changed its Dress And stood amazed before the Change In ravished Holiness --
Berkshire Songs
Song Cycle by Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)
1. The Thrill came slowly like a Boon for  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
2. I'm nobody! Who are you?  [sung text checked 1 time]
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us - don't tell! They'd [banish us]1, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell [your]2 name the livelong [day]3 To an admiring bog!
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Ich bin ein Niemand! Wer bist Du?", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Io non sono nessuno, e tu?", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Bacon, G. Coates: "advertise"
2 Bacon, G. Coates: "one's
3 Bacon, G. Coates: "June"
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3. It rises ‑‑ passes ‑‑ on our South  [sung text checked 1 time]
It rises -- passes -- on our South Inscribes a simple Noon -- Cajoles a Moment with the Spires And infinite is gone --
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission