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The Robin for the Crumb Returns no syllable But long records the Lady’s name In Silver Chronicle.
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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).
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "The robin", 1997/2002, published 2007 [high voice and piano], from the collection An Amherst Bestiary, no. 3, Peters Edition [text verified 1 time]
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , from Kinder-Lieder, in 2. Lieder und Bilder aus der Natur, copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-28
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Le Merle pour la Miette Ne donne aucune Syllabe Mais écrit longtemps le nom de la Dame Dans sa Chronique d'Argent.
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Translation of title "The robin" = "Le merle" (d'Amérique)Authorship
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
This text was added to the website: 2016-04-13
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