Ample make this bed

Ample make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break
Excellent and fair.

Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;
Let no sunrise' yellow noise
Interrupt this ground.

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

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Arthur Farwell (1872-1952) , "Ample make this bed", op. 108 (Ten Emily Dickinson Songs) no. 7.
by Daron Aric Hagen (1961-) , "Ample make this bed", 1989 [voice and piano], from Love in a Life, no. 3.
by Jake Heggie (1961-) , "Ample make this bed", 2000, first performed 2000 [soprano and piano], from How Well I Knew the Light, no. 1.
by Brian Holmes (1946-) , "Ample make this bed" [soprano, chorus, children's chorus, and orchestra], from Amherst Requiem, no. 6.
by Michael M. Horvit (1932-) , "Ample make this bed", published 1970 [soprano and piano], from Three Songs of Elegy, no. ?
by Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917-1995) , "Ample make this bed", published 1964 [SSA chorus and piano], from Emily Dickinson Set, no. ?

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