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This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me, - The simple news that nature told, With tender magesty. Her message is committed To hands I cannot see; For love of her, sweet countrymen, Judge tenderly of me!
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [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 Ronald A. Beckett , "This is my letter to the world", from My Letter to the world, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956), "This is my letter to the world", first performed 2000 [ soprano and piano ], from Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 4, Carl Fischer Music [sung text not yet checked]
- by Donald Grantham (b. 1947), "This is my letter to the world", published 1983 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Seven Choral Settings of Poems by Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork (b. 1941), "This is my letter to the World", 2004 [ voice and piano ], from Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Leisner (b. 1958), "This is my letter to the World", 1986 [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Confiding, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Levy , "This is my letter to the world" [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Mennin (1923 - 1983), "This is my letter to the world", published 1979 [ SSA chorus, harp, piano, and percussion ], from Reflections of Emily [sung text not yet checked]
- by Valerie Saalbach (b. 1951), "Love" [ voice and piano ], from Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947), "My Letter to the World", 2014/2020, copyright © 2015 [ soprano, piano or string quartet and clarinet ad libitum ], from Emily! (from New England), no. 1, E.C.Schirmer
Score: ECS Publishing [external link] [sung text not yet checked] - by Karen Wimhurst (b. 1960), "This is my letter to the world", first performed 2004 [ chorus ], from A Letter to the World, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 40
Dies ist mein Brief an diese Welt, die niemals noch mir schrieb, - vom Neuen, das Natur erzählt mit würdevoller Lieb'. Die Botschaft hab ich abgesandt, an Hände außer Sicht: um Ihrer Lieb, ihr Leut im Land, schenkt mir ein mild' Gericht!
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Based on:
- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-12
Line count: 8
Word count: 41