Alter? When the hills do (Dickinson, set by (Ernst Bacon, Vincent Persichetti)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Alter? When the hills do

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE GER ITA

Alter? When the hills do.
Falter? When the sun
Question if his glory
Be the perfect one.

Surfeit? When the daffodil
Doth of the dew:
Even as herself, O friend!
I will of you!

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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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "O friend", c1940-44, published 1944 [medium voice and piano], from Songs from Emily Dickinson [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "When the hills do", op. 77 no. 3 (1957), published 1958 [voice, piano], from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 3. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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