Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 1

by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990)

Word count: 291

German (Deutsch) translation: Emily Dickinson-Lieder: Natur, Zeit und Raum - Band 1 ( Bertram Kottmann)

?. Simple days [sung text checked 1 time]

To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or [me]¹
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!

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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 © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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¹ Bacon: "I"

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?. A spider [sung text checked 1 time]

A spider sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of Gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.

Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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?. On this wondrous sea [sung text checked 1 time]

On this wondrous sea,
Sailing silently,
[Ho! pilot, ho!
Knowest thou the shore]¹
Where no breakers roar,
Where the storm is o'er?

In the silent west
Many [the]² sails at rest,
Their anchors fast;
Thither I pilot thee, -
Land, ho! Eternity!
Ashore at last!

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 © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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¹ lines inverted by Bacon ?
² omitted by Bacon ?
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

?. A drop fell on the apple tree [sung text checked 1 time]

A drop fell on the apple tree.
Another on the roof;
A half a dozen kissed the eaves,
And made the gables laugh.

A few went out to help the brook,
That went to help the sea.
Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,
What necklaces could be!

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Authorship

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]

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1. Is there such a thing as day? [sung text checked 1 time]

Will there really be a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like water-lilies?
Has it feathers like a bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?

Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor!
Oh, some wise man from the skies!
Please to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies!

Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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