The Robin for the Crumb
Returns no syllable
But long records the Lady’s name
In Silver Chronicle.

About the headline (FAQ)

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).

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• 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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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• 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

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

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

Le Merle pour la Miette
Ne donne aucune Syllabe
Mais écrit longtemps le nom de la Dame
Dans sa Chronique d'Argent.