Our share of night to bear

Our share of night to bear,
Our share of morning,
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning.

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way.
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards - day!

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

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) , "Our share of night to bear", published 1947 [SSAA chorus and piano or chamber orchestra], from From Emily's Diary, no. ?
by Otto Luening (1900-1996) , "Our share of night to bear", published 1961 [medium voice and piano], from Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. ?
by Gitta Steiner (1932-) , "Our share of night to bear" [SATB chorus a cappella], from 4 Choruses of Emily Dickinson, no. ?

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