by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The bee is not afraid of me
Language: English
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The bee is not afraid of me. I know the butterfly ; The pretty people in the woods Receive me cordially. The brooks laugh louder when I come, The breezes madder play; Wherefore, mine eye, thy silver mists ? Wherefore, O summer's day ?
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Confirmed with Emily Dickinson, Poems, Boston : Little Brown, 1922, p.75
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 Evan Williams (b. 1988), "The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me" [ soprano and piano ], from Emily's House (10 Poems from Emily Dickinson), no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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