Zu wenig Morgen sind’s

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Too few the mornings be

Language: English

Our translations: GER

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Too few the mornings be,
Too scant the nights.
No lodging can be had
For the delights
That come to earth to stay,
But no apartment find
And ride away.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• R. Gordon

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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 Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956), "Too few the mornings be", first performed 2000 [ soprano and piano ], from Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 1, Carl Fischer Music [sung text checked 1 time]

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GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Zu wenig Morgen sind’s

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

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Zu wenig Morgen sind’s,
und Nächte kaum.
Für Freuden findet sich
kein Herbergsraum.
Gern weilten sie an ird’schem Ort,
finden jedoch kein Quartier 
und reiten fort.

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2021-03-17
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Word count: 26