Weeping and sighing (Dickinson, set by E. Bacon) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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Weeping and sighing

Language: English


It's such a little thing to weep,
So short a thing to sigh;
And yet by trades the size of these
We men and women die!

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Poems by Emily Dickinson

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Ernst Bacon (1898-1990)

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