by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
What inn is this
Language: English
Our translations: GER
What inn is this Where for the night Peculiar traveller comes? Who is the landlord? Where the maids? Behold, what curious rooms! No ruddy fires on the hearth, No brimming tankards flow. Necromancer, landlord, Who are these below?
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891 [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 Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "What inn is this", published 1977 [ voice, piano ], from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "What inn is this" [ soprano, chorus, children's chorus, and orchestra ], from Amherst Requiem, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "What inn is this", published 1979 [ soprano, piano ], from Women's Voices, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , no title, copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 38