It's all I have to bring today

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.

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

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

by Dace Aperans (1953-) , no title, 1994, from Three Songs with poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 1.
by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "It's all I have to bring", published 1944 [high voice and piano], from Five Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. ?
by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "This and my heart"
by John Brodbin Kennedy , "It's all I have to bring today", published 1973. [chorus: SSA a cappella]

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