1951
The Show is Not the Show
Composed by 
Otto Luening
Otto Luening Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson Song Collection
"The Show is Not the Show" is the second song of Otto Luening's Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Text
The show is not the show
by Emily Dickinson
The show is not the show,
But they that go.
Menagerie to me
My neighbor be.
Fair play –
Both went to see.
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