Words by Emily Dickinson
Purchase Score
Flowers 1’57”
(Recording: The Philovox Ensemble of Boston)
for SATB chorus and piano
Level: medium, 1’57”
Program Notes:
This piece is a setting of Emily Dickenson’s poem; the music was intended to joyfully represent the natural beauty of flowers, as does the poetry.
—Henry Mollicone
Flowers
1’57”
Flowers — Well — if anybody
Can the ecstasy define
Half a transport — half a trouble
With which flowers humble men
Anybody find the fountain
From which floods so contra flow
I will give him all the Daisies
Which upon the hillside blow
Too much pathos in their faces
For a simple breast like mine
Butterflies from St. Domingo
Cruising round the purple line
Have a system of aesthetics
Far superior to mine