Price codeA
GeneralCatalogue no. 3011
Wild nights
Music: Sheena Phillips, Words: Emily Dickinson
Voicing: SATB
Performance time approx: 0m 45s
Price code: A
Complexity:
This piece is part of the set "Songs of love and longing".
The set also includes:
This piece should express the sheer passion and feeling of Emily Dickinson’s poem. No hesitation!
A recording by Rudsambee company of singers is available on their album bottled at source (RUBEECD003).
Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile — the Winds —
To a Heart in port —
Done with the Compass —
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden —
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor — Tonight —
In Thee!
Emily Dickinson
(original untitled)
Poem by Emily Dickinson used by arrangement with the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.