by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Simple days See original
Language: English
To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or I
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!
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Composition:
- Set to music by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Simple days", alternate title: "The simple days", published 1944, stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], from Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 1
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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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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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 51