I never saw a moor (Dickinson, set by Leonard Berkowitz, Arthur Farwell, Isadore Freed, Helen Sewall Leavitt, Robert Muczynski, John Charles Sacco, Richard Pearson Thomas, Adolf Weiss) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

I never saw a moor

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE GER GER ITA

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.

I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.

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Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [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 Leonard Berkowitz (b. 1926), "I never saw a moor", published 1968 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Four Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Farwell (1872 - 1952), "I never saw a moor", op. 105 no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Isadore Freed (1900 - 1960), "Chartless", published 1946 [sung text not yet checked]
by Helen Sewall Leavitt (1880/90 - ?), "Chartless" [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Muczynski (1929 - 2010), "I never saw a moor" [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Charles Sacco (1905 - 1987), "Revelation", published 1941 [ high voice, piano ], from Three Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Pearson Thomas (b. 1957), "I never saw a moor" [ voice and piano ], from At last, to be identified, no. 4, confirmed with a concert program [sung text checked 1 time]
by Adolf Weiss (1891 - 1971), "Chartless", 1928, published c1930 [ soprano and string quartet ], from Seven Songs for Soprano and String Quartet, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

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