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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
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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), "The morns are meeker than they were", published 1975 [ SA chorus and piano ], from Songs from Emily [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "The morns are meeker", 1950-60 [ voice and piano ], from Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "The morns are meeker than they were", published 1978 [ mezzo-soprano, piano ], from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Leland Clarke (1907 - 1992), "Autumn", 1979 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Layton Kent (b. 1916), "The morns are meeker than they were", published 1966 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from Autumn songs, no. 1, New York: Lawson-Gould [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduardo Marzo (1852 - 1929), "Autumn" [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) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Herbst", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (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.
Line count: 8
Word count: 44
Die Früh' gedämpfter als zuvor, die Nüsse brauner schon; der Beere Wange runder, die Rose ist geflohn. Der Ahorn trägt den buntern Schal, die Flur ein rot Gewand. Dass ich nicht altmodisch bin, leg ich ein Schmuckstück an.
Authorship:
- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2011 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
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Based on:
- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
This text was added to the website: 2011-08-16
Line count: 8
Word count: 38