by
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Bring me the sunset in a cup
Language: English
Bring me the sunset in a cup --
Reckon the morning's flagons up
And say how many Dew --
Tell me how far the morning leaps --
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue!
Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin's extasy sic
Among astonished boughs --
How many trips the Tortoise makes --
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!
Also, Who laid the Rainbow's piers,
Also, Who leads the docile spheres
By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite --
Who counts the wampum of the night
To see that none is due?
Who built this little Alban House
And shut the windows down so close
My spirit cannot see?
Who'll let me out some gala day
With implements to fly away,
Passing Pomposity?
Available sung texts: (what is this?)
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Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 1, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 140 (Version B).
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Scott Gendel (b. 1977), "Bring me the sunset", 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Forgotten Light, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "Bring me the sunset in a cup" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "Foreword", 1997/2002, published 2007 [ high voice and piano ], from An Amherst Bestiary, no. 2, Peters Edition [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 136
Bringe mir den Sonnenuntergang in einem...
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Bringe mir den Sonnenuntergang in einem Becher --
Zähle die Kannen des Morgens auf
Und sage, wie viele Tautropfen fielen --
Sage mir, wie weit der Morgen springt --
Sage mir, wann der Weber schläft,
Der die blaue Weite ausgesponnen hat!
Schreibe mir auf, wie viele Noten
Es in der neuen Entzückung der Amsel
In den staunenden Zweigen gibt --
Wie viele Reisen die Schildkröte macht --
Wie viele Becher die Biene zu sich nimmt,
Die Schlemmerin des Taus!
Auch wer die Pfeiler des Regenbogens steckte,
Auch wer die gefügigen Sphären
An biegsamen blauenWeidenbändern hinleitet?
Wessen Finger die Deckenzapfen aufreiht --
Wer die Zaster der Nacht zählt,
Um festzustellen ob nichts fehlt?
Wer hat dies kleine weiße Haus gebaut
Und die Fenster so dicht verschlossen,
Daß mein Geist nichts sehen kann?
Wer wird mich eines Galatages freilassen,
Zum Fortfliegen ausgerüstet,
Weit über allen Prunk hinweg?
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Translation of the title of the song by Philips: "Vorwort"
Text Authorship:
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