by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
As if some little Arctic flower
Language: English
As if some little Arctic flower, Upon the polar hem, Went wandering down the latitudes, Until it puzzled came To continents of summer, To firmaments of sun, To strange, bright crowds of flowers, And birds of foreign tongue! I say, as if this little flower To Eden wandered in - What then? Why, nothing, Only, your inference therefrom!
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Authorship:
- 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), "As if some little Arctic flower", published 1971 [ SA chorus and piano ], from Nature [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Some little Arctic flower", alternate title: "The Arctic flower", c1938 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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