by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The morns are meeker than they were
Language: English
The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
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Authorship
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [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 Allyson Brown Applebaum (b. 1955), "The morns are meeker than they were", published 1975 [SA chorus and piano], from Songs from Emily [ sung text not verified ]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "The morns are meeker", 1950-60 [voice and piano], from Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 2 [ sung text verified 1 time]
- by Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "The morns are meeker than they were", published 1978 [mezzo-soprano, piano], from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 13. [ sung text not verified ]
- by Henry Leland Clarke (1907 - 1992), "Autumn", 1979. [medium voice, piano] [ sung text not verified ]
- by Richard Layton Kent (b. 1916), "The morns are meeker than they were", published 1966 [SSA chorus and piano], from Autumn songs, no. 1, New York: Lawson-Gould [ sung text not verified ]
- by Eduardo Marzo (1852 - 1929), "Autumn" [ sung text not verified ]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Herbst", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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