Will there really be a morning? | Will there really be a morning?

Will there really be a morning?

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

Will there really be a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like water-lilies?
Has it feathers like a bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?

Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor!
Oh, some wise man from the skies!
Please to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies!

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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 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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Is there such a thing as day?", c1940, published 1944 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 1, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ronald A. Beckett , "Will there really be a morning", 2008 [ voice and piano ], from I'm Nobody!, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gloria Coates (b. 1938), "Will there really be a morning?", from 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 15 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956), "Will there really be a morning" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956), "Will there really be a morning?", first performed 2000 [ soprano and piano ], from Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 11, Carl Fischer Music [sung text not yet checked]
by Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "Will there really be a morning?" [ treble chorus and piano ], from Emily's Day, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Hundley (1930 - 2018), "Will there really be a morning" [sung text not yet checked]
by Lori Laitman (b. 1955), "Will there really be a morning?", 1996 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Four Dickinson Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "Out of the morning", op. 77 no. 1 (1957), published 1958 [ voice, piano ], from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by André Previn (1929 - 2019), "Will there really be a morning", 1999, first performed 1999 [ soprano and piano ], from Three Dickinson Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Valerie Saalbach (b. 1951), "Out of the Morning" [ voice and piano ], from Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Willeby (1865 - 1955), "Little pilgrim (A child's fancy)", published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 75