by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
I'll tell you how the Sun rose
Language: English
I'll tell you how the Sun rose, - A Ribbon at a time - The Steeples swam in Amethyst - The news like Squirrels ran - The Hills untied their Bonnets, The Bobolinks - begun - Then I said softly to myself - "That must have been the Sun!" But how he set - I know not - There seemed a purple stile Which little Yellow boys and girls Were climbing all the while - Till when they reached the other side - A Dominie in Gray Put gently up the evening Bars, And led the flock away.
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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 Allyson Brown Applebaum (b. 1955), "I'll tell you how the Sun rose", published 1975 [ SA chorus and piano ], from Songs from Emily [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Farwell (1872 - 1952), "How the sun rose", op. 105 no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eunice Lea Kettering (b. 1906), "The sun", published 1955 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fanny Snow Knowlton (1859 - 1926), "A day" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don McAfee (b. 1935), "I'll tell you how the sun rose" [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adeline Raymond-Ward , "A day", published 1913 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 98