by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Answer July
Language: English
Answer July -- Where is the Bee -- Where is the Blush -- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July -- Where is the Seed -- Where is the Bud -- Where is the May -- Answer Thee -- Me -- Nay -- said the May -- Show me the Snow -- Show me the Bells -- Show me the Jay! Quibbled the Jay -- Where be the Maize -- Where be the Haze -- Where be the Bur? Here -- said the Year --
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Unpublished poems of Emily Dickinson [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]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 Jean Berger, né Arthur Schloßberg (1909 - 2002), "Answer July", published 1973 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Three Poems by Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jonathan Dove (b. 1959), "Answer July", 2000, from The Passing of the Year, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork (b. 1941), "Answer July", 2004 [ voice and piano ], from Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Betty Roe (b. 1930), "Answer July", published 1999 [ duet for soprano and baritone with piano ], from Delight, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wim de Ruiter (b. 1943), "Answer July", 1983 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Schwartz (1907 - 1999), "Answer July", published 1981 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Three Choruses on Poems by Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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