1951

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Composed by Otto Luening

Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson Song Collection

"Hope is the Thing with Feathers" is the third song of Otto Luening's Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson.

Text

Hope is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Sheet Music

Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson

Otto Luening
1. Our Share of Night to Bear
2. The Show is Not the Show
3. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
4. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
5. Experiment to Me
6. I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind
7. Few Yet Enough
8. Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?
9. When I Hoped, I Feared
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