by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
There is no frigate like a book
Language: English
Our translations: GER
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears [a]1 human soul!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
1 Bachlund: "the"Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "A Book", appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, in 1. Life, no. 16 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "No frigate", 2011 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Kein Schiff", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2011-12-28
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Word count: 42