by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
It will be Summer, eventually
Language: English
It will be Summer, eventually. Ladies - with parasols - Sauntering Gentlemen - with Canes - And little Girls - with Dolls - Will tint the pallid landscape - As 'twere a bright Bouquet - Tho' drifted deep, in Parian - The Village lies - today - The Lilacs - bending many a year - Will sway with purple load - The Bees - will not despise the tune - Their Forefathers - have hummed - The Wild Rose - redden in the Bog - The Aster - on the Hill Her everlasting fashion - set - And Covenant Gentians - frill - Till Summer folds her miracle - As Women - do - their Gown - Or Priests - adjust the Symbols - When Sacrament - is done -
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Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ronald A. Beckett , "Summer: It will be Summer - eventually", 2006 [ voice and piano ], from The Seasons: Four Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sylvia Glickman (1932 - 2006), "It will be Summer" [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 130