Our Share of Night to Bear

"Our share of night to bear" is the first song of Otto Luening's Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson.

Date: 1951Composer: Otto LueningText: Emily DickinsonSong Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson

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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!

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Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson

Composer(s): Otto Luening

Song(s): 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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