1951
Our Share of Night to Bear
Composed by 
Otto Luening
Otto Luening Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson Song Collection
"Our share of night to bear" is the first song of Otto Luening's Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Text
Our Share of Night to Bear
by Emily Dickinson
Our share of night to bear,
Our share of morning,
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning.
Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way.
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards – day!
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
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