by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
All forgot for recollecting
Language: English
All forgot for recollecting Just a paltry One — All forsook, for just a Stranger's New Accompanying — Grace of Wealth, and Grace of Station Less accounted than An unknown Esteem possessing — Estimate — Who can — Home effaced — Her faces dwindled — Nature — altered small — Sun — if shone — or Storm — if shattered — Overlooked I all — Dropped — my fate — a timid Pebble — In thy bolder Sea — Prove — me — Sweet — if I regret it — Prove Myself — of Thee —
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Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 Ann Marie Callaway (b. 1949), "All forgot for recollecting", 1979 [soprano, flute, piano], from Besides this May, no. 5. [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2016-03-29
Line count: 16
Word count: 96