Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.
I Rise: Women in Song
Song Cycle by Reena Esmail (b. 1983)
4. Love is Anterior to Life [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "Love", appears in Love
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Confirmed with Emily Dickinson, Poems: Third Series, Boston : Robert's Brothers, 1896, p.74
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5. Still I Rise [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
You may write me down in history [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014), copyright ©
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