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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

The robin
 (Sung text for setting by J. Philips)
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Language: English 
Our translations:  FRE GER
The Robin for the Crumb
Returns no syllable
But long records the Lady’s name
In Silver Chronicle.
Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 2, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 810 (Version B).

Composition:

    Set to music by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "The robin", 1997/2002, published 2007 [ high voice and piano ], from An Amherst Bestiary, no. 3, Peters Edition

Text 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) , appears in Kinder-Lieder, in 2. Lieder und Bilder aus der Natur, copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2014-08-28
Line count: 4
Word count: 17

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