Summer for thee grant I may be (Dickinson, set by (Ann Marie Callaway, Gitta Steiner)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Summer for thee grant I may be

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE GER

Summer for thee grant I may be
  When summer days are flown!
Thy music still when whippoorwill
  And oriole are done!

For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
  And sow my blossoms o'er!
Pray gather me, Anemone,
  Thy flower forevermore!

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Confirmed with Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000 http://www.bartleby.com/113/3040.html

Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896 [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 Ann Marie Callaway (b. 1949), "Summer for thee", 1979 [soprano, flute, piano], from Besides this May, no. 1. [
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by Gitta Steiner (1932 - 1990), "Summer for Thee" [SATB chorus a cappella], from 4 Choruses of Emily Dickinson [
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]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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