by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
When Night is almost done
Language: English
When Night is almost done -- And Sunrise grows so near That we can touch the Spaces -- It's time to smooth the Hair -- And get the Dimples ready -- And wonder we could care For that old -- faded Midnight -- That frightened -- but an Hour --
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Text 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 Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "When night is almost done", published 1978 [ mezzo-soprano, piano ], from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- 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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