by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Few get enough, — enough is one
Language: English
Few get enough, — enough is one; To that ethereal throng Have not each one of us the right To stealthily belong?
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Confirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, in 1. Life, no. 21, first published 1896 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Few get enough", 195-? [ voice and piano ], note: one of two settings [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Few get enough" [ voice and piano ], note: one of two settings [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Luening (1900 - 1996), "Few, yet enough", published 1961 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2004-05-30
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