by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Pink, small, and punctual
Language: English
Pink, small, and punctual, Aromatic, low, Covert in April, Candid in May, Dear to the moss, Known by the knoll, Next to the robin In every human soul. Bold little beauty, Bedecked with thee, Nature forswears Antiquity. (With the first Arbutus.)
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [author's text not yet checked 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), "With the first Arbutus", c1959, published 1971 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from Nature [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 41