by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
If she had been the mistletoe
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
If she had been the mistletoe And I had been the rose, How gay upon your table My velvet life to close. Since I am of the Druid, And she is of the dew, I'll deck tradition's buttonhole And send the rose to you.
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Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gordon Getty (b. 1933), "If she had been the mistletoe" [soprano and piano], from The White Election - A Song Cycle for soprano and piano on 32 poems of Emily Dickinson, Part 1 : The Pensive Spring, no. 4. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-12
Line count: 8
Word count: 44