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It's all I have to bring today -- This, and my heart beside -- This, and my heart, and all the fields -- And all the meadows wide -- Be sure you count -- should I forget Some one the sum could tell -- This, and my heart, and all the Bees Which in the Clover dwell.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Second Series, first published 1896 [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 Dace Aperans (b. 1953), no title, 1994, from Three Songs with poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "It's all I have to bring", alternate title: "This and my heart", 1940-44, published 1944 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Brodbin Kennedy , "It's all I have to bring today", published 1973 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rhian Samuel (b. 1944), "It's all I have to bring today", 2021-22, first performed 2022 [ voice, viola and piano ], from My Heart beside, no. 3, Tŷ Cerdd [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Sisco , "It's all I have to bring today", 2007 [ soprano and piano ], from Love is..., no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947), "All I Have to Bring", 2015 [ voice and piano ], from Emily! (from New England), no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 51
Nur dieses bringe ich heut mit - mein Herz noch im Geleit, dies, und mein Herz, die ganze Flur und all die Auen weit. Falls ich’s vergess’, du zählst gewiss, - dass einer kennt die Zahl, - dies, und mein Herz, die Bienen all, vom Klee bestellt zum Mahl.
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Translation of titles:
"It's all I have to bring" = "Nur dieses bringe ich mit"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Second Series, first published 1896
This text was added to the website: 2020-01-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 46