1997

Ample make this Bed

Composed by Steve Heitzeg

Three Graces for Hildur Song Collection

"Ample make this Bed" is the second song in Steve Heitzeg's song cycle Three Graces for Hildur, a cycle which sets the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

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Ample make this Bed (poem 829)
by Emily Dickinson

Ample make this Bed —
Make this Bed with Awe —
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.

Be its Mattress straight —
Be its Pillow round —
Let no Sunrise’ yellow noise
Interrupt this Ground —