When they come back | When they come back -- if Blossoms do

When they come back ‑‑ if Blossoms do

Language: English

Our translations: CAT FRE GER ITA

When they come back -- if Blossoms do --
I always feel a doubt
If Blossoms can be born again
When once the Art is out --

When they begin, if Robins may,
I always had a fear
I did not tell, it was their last Experiment
Last Year,

When it is May, if May return,
Had nobody a pang
Lest in a Face so beautiful
He might not look again?

If I am there -- One does not know
What Party -- One may be
Tomorrow, but if I am there
I take back all I say --

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• A. Copland • J. Coulthard

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson [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 Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990), "When they come back", 1949-50, published 1951 [ voice, piano ], from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean Coulthard (1908 - 2000), "When they come back -- if Blossoms do" [sung text checked 1 time]

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