Wild nights! -- Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile -- the [Wind]1 -- To a heart in port, -- Done with the Compass, -- Done with the Chart! Rowing in Eden -- Ah! the Sea! Might I but moor -- Tonight -- In thee!
Songs of Love and Death
Song Cycle by Marjorie M. Rusche
Word count: 644
1. Wild nights [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- CHI Chinese (中文) (Mei Foong Ang) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Sturmnacht! - Sturmnacht!", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Notti selvagge! Notti di tempesta!", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 note: sometimes "Winds". Hoiby, Leisner, Rusche, A. Thomas: "Winds"
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2. An Irish airman foresees his death [sung text checked 1 time]
I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.
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- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "An Irish airman foresees his death", appears in The Wild Swans at Coole, first published 1919 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Un aviateur irlandais prévoit sa mort", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with W. B. Yeats, Later Poems, Macmillan and Co., London, 1926, page 245.
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3. I can wade Grief [sung text checked 1 time]
I can wade Grief —
Whole Pools of it —
I'm used to that —
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet —
And I tip — drunken —
[ ... ]
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, written 1862 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Waten durch Leid", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
4. This is just to say [sung text checked 1 time]
I have eaten [ ... ]
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- by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), "This is just to say", appears in Collected Poems 1921-1931, first published 1934, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.5. I heard a fly buzz [sung text checked 1 time]
I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died -- The Stillness [in the Room]1 Was like the Stillness in the Air -- Between the Heaves of Storm. The Eyes [around]2 -- had wrung them dry -- And Breaths were gathering [sure]3 For that last Onset -- when the King Be witnessed -- in [the Room]4 -- I willed my Keepsakes -- Signed away What portion of me [be Assignable -- and then it was]5 There interposed a Fly -- With Blue -- uncertain stumbling Buzz -- Between the light -- and me -- And then the Windows failed -- and then I could not see to see --
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 some versions of the original poem have "round my form"
2 "" : "beside"
3 "" : "firm" (used by Rusche)
4 "" : "his power"
5 "" : "I / Could make assignable, -- and then"
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6. The hanging man [sung text checked 1 time]
By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me [ ... ]
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- by Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), "The hanging man", appears in Ariel, first published 1965, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.7. Mary's eyes [sung text checked 1 time]
Mary's eyes are blue as azure [ ... ]
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- by Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (1930 - 1999), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
8. After Reading St. John the Divine [sung text checked 1 time]
Moon's glow by sevenfold multiplied turned red [ ... ]
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- by Gene Derwood (1909 - 1954), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
9. Love comes quietly [sung text checked 1 time]
Love comes quietly [ ... ]
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- by Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
10. Living [sung text checked 1 time]
The fire in leaf and grass [ ... ]
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- by Denise Levertov (1923 - 1997), "Living", appears in The Sorrow Dance, first published 1967, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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