Song Cycle by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990)

?. So bashful

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by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems of Emily Dickinson, published 1890

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So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so ashamed!
So hidden in her leaflets,
Lest anybody find;

So breathless till I passed her,
So helpless when I turned
And bore her, struggling, blushing,
Her simple haunts beyond!

For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom betrayed the dell,
Many will doubtless ask me,
But I shall never tell!

?. It's all I have to bring

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by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1896

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It's all I have to bring today,
This, and my heart beside,
This, and my heart, and all the fields,
And all the meadows wide.
Be sure you count, should I forget, -
Some one the sun could tell, -
This, and my heart, and all the bees
Which in the clover dwell.

?. Poor little heart!

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by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1896

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Poor little heart!
Did they forget thee?
Then dinna care! Then dinna care!

Proud little heart!
Did they forsake thee?
Be debonair! Be debonair!

Frail little heart!
I would not break thee:
Could'st credit me? Could'st credit me?

Gay little heart!
Like morning glory
Thou'll wilted be; thou'll wilted be!

?. To make a prairie

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by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1896

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.

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