Hope is the thing (Natalie Goossens)

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(Posted 2025-02-11) CPDL #83808:

Editor: Natalie Goossens (submitted 2025-02-11).

Score information: A4, 9 pages, 350 kB Copyright: Personal

General Information

Title: Hope Is the Thing
Composer: Natalie Goossens
Lyricist: Emily Dickinson
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2025
Description: Duration: 04'50"

Original text and translations

English text

Hope Is the Thing
(Emily Dickinson)
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.