by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
To make a prairie Matches original text
Language: English
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.
Composition:
- Set to music by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "To make a prairie", 1940-44, published 1944 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 4
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 27