I'm Nobody (op. 108, no. 8)

"I'm Nobody" 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: 1944Composer: Arthur FarwellText: Emily DickinsonSong Collection: 10 Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 108

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I’m nobody! Who are you? (poem 288)
by Emily Dickinson

I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us–don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

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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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