Song Cycle by Lee Hoiby (1926-)

1. A letter

Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

A Letter is a joy of Earth --
It is denied the Gods --

2. How the Waters closed

Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title

How the Waters closed above Him
We shall never know --
How He stretched His Anguish to us
That -- is covered too --

Spreads the Pond Her Base of Lilies
Bold above the Boy
Whose unclaimed Hat and Jacket
Sum the History --

3. Wild nights

Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1891

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Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

GER German (Walter A. Aue)
ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

Wild nights! -- Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile -- the [Wind]1 --
To a heart in port, --
Done with the compass, --
Done with the chart!

Rowing in Eden --
Ah! the Sea!
Might I but moor -- Tonight --
In thee!

4. There came a wind like a bugle

Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1891

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FRE French (Guy Laffaille)

There came a wind like a bugle,
It quivered through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass

We barred the window and the doors
As from an emerald ghost
The doom's electric moccasin
That very instant passed.

On a strange mob of planting trees,
And fences fled away,
And rivers where the houses ran
[The living looked that day,]1

The bell within the steeple wild,
The flying tidings [whirled]2.
How much can come and much can go,
And yet abide the world!

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