Ample Make This Bed (op. 108, no. 7)

"Ample Make This Bed" was originally part of Farwell's 10 Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 108. The song is currently published in the second volume of Boosey & Hawkes' two-volume Thirty-Four Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson by Arthur Farwell.

Date: 1944Text: Emily DickinsonSong Collection: 10 Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 108

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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 —

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Thirty-Four Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson

Composer(s): Arthur Farwell

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Thirty-Four Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, Vol. 2

Composer(s): Arthur Farwell

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