by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Love's stricken, "why"
Language: English
Love's stricken, "why" Is all that love can speak -- Built of but just a syllable The hugest hearts that break.
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Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Letters of Emily Dickinson, first published 1894 [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 Hugh Brunt , "Love's stricken 'why'", 2006, from Three Dickinson Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Love's stricken 'why'", published 1965 [ mezzo-soprano, piano ], from Poems of Love and the Rain, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Love's stricken 'why'", published 1965 [ mezzo-soprano, piano ], from Poems of Love and the Rain, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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