Ample make this bed | Ample make this Bed

Ample make this Bed

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER ITA

Ample make this Bed --
Make this Bed with Awe --
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.

Be its Mattress straight --
Be its Pillow round --
Let no Sunrise' yellow noise
Interrupt this Ground --

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891 [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), "No sunrise", 1960-70 [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Farwell (1872 - 1952), "Ample make this bed", op. 108 (Ten Emily Dickinson Songs) no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "Ample make this bed", 1989 [ voice and piano ], from Love in a Life, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "Ample make this bed", 2000, first performed 2000 [ soprano and piano ], from How Well I Knew the Light, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "Ample make this bed" [ soprano, chorus, children's chorus, and orchestra ], from Amherst Requiem, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Michael M. Horvit (b. 1932), "Ample make this bed", published 1970 [ soprano and piano ], from Three Songs of Elegy [sung text not yet checked]
by Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917 - 1995), "Ample make this bed", published 1964 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from Emily Dickinson Set [sung text not yet checked]
by David Leisner (b. 1958), "Ample make this Bed", 1986 [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Confiding, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 34