by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
I never felt at Home ‑ Below
Language: English
I never felt at Home - Below - And in the Handsome Skies I shall not feel at Home - I know - I don't like Paradise - Because it's Sunday - all the time - And Recess - never comes - And Eden'll be so lonesome Bright Wednesday Afternoons - If God could make a visit - Or ever took a Nap - So not to see us - but they say Himself - a Telescope Perennial beholds us - Myself would run away From Him - and Holy Ghost - and All - But there's the "Judgement Day"!
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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 Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986), "New England Pastoral", published 1949 [ medium voice and piano ], from Three Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Farwell (1872 - 1952), "I never felt at home below", op. 108 (Ten Emily Dickinson Songs) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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