A day | I'll tell you how the Sun rose

I'll tell you how the Sun rose

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

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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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 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):

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 87