by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Forever at his side to walk
Language: English
Forever at his side to walk The smaller of the two, Brain of his brain, Blood of his blood, Two lives, one Being, now. Forever of his fate to taste, If grief the largest part, If joy, to put my piece away For that belovéd heart. All life to know each other— Whom we can never learn, And by and by a change Called "Heaven"— Rapt neighborhood of men Just finding out what Puzzled us Without the lexicon!
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Confirmed with Emily Dickinson, Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1929, p.148
Text 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 Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947), "Forever at His Side to Walk", 2006 [ mezzo-soprano, satb chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947), "One Being", 2008/2009, copyright © 2008 [ mezzo-soprano, violin, viola, violoncello and piano ], from The Poet's Heart, no. 2, E.C.Schirmer
Publisher: ECS Publishing [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-02-19
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Word count: 78