I'm nobody! Who are you

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd [banish us]1, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell [your]2 name the livelong [day]3
To an admiring bog!

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 Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "I'm nobody" [soprano, piano]
by Robert F. Baksa (1938-) , "I'm nobody", published 1977, from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 7.
by Leonard Berkowitz (1926-) , "I'm nobody", published 1968 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Four Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. ?
by Gloria Coates (1938-) , "I'm nobody", from 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 6.
by Sharon Davis (1937-) , "I'm nobody", published 1981 [soprano and piano trio], from Three Moods of Emily Dickinson, no. ?
by Arthur Farwell (1872-1952) , "I'm nobody! Who are you?", op. 108 (Ten Emily Dickinson Songs) no. 8.
by Ulf A. Grahn , "I'm nobody", published 1979. [voice, piano]
by Brian Holmes (1946-) , "I'm nobody!" [treble chorus and piano], from Emily's Day, no. 3.
by Sergius Kagen (1909-1964) , "I'm nobody", published 1950. [soprano, piano]
by John Brodbin Kennedy , "I'm nobody", published 1966. [chorus: SATB a cappella]
by Ezra Laderman (1924-) , no title, published 1970 [two narrators, piano, and orchestra], from Magic Prison, no. ?
by Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) , "I'm nobody", op. 77 no. 2 (1957), published 1958, from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 2.
by Dennis Riley , "On life" [SAB chorus and string ensemble], from Three little commentaries, no. ?
by Robert Starer , "I'm nobody", published 1968. [chorus: SSA a cappella]
by Gitta Steiner (1932-) , "I'm nobody" [SATB chorus a cappella], from 4 Choruses of Emily Dickinson, no. ?

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

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