by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The Gift
Language: English
Do you look out tonight? The Moon rides like a Girl through a Topaz Town.
Note: this is an excerpt from a letter to Samuel Bowles around January 11, 1862 [External site: Dickinson Electronic Archives]
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Susanne Abbuehl (b. 1970), "The Gift" [ voice, flugelhorn, piano, Indian harmonium, percussion ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2024-06-28
Line count: 2
Word count: 15