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The Starry Night
Song Cycle by Jake Heggie (b. 1961)
1. The starry night [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974), copyright ©
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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.2. Celestial locomotion
Language: English
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- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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- a text in Dutch (Nederlands) by Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890) [text unavailable]
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3. Go thy great way! [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Go thy great way! The Stars thou meetst Are even as Thyself -- For what are Stars but Asterisks To point a human Life?
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
4. Reflection
Language: English
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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. The sun kept setting [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
The Sun kept setting -- setting -- still No Hue of Afternoon -- Upon the Village I perceived From House to House 'twas Noon. The Dusk kept dropping -- dropping -- still No Dew upon the Grass -- But only on my Forehead stopped -- And wandered in my Face -- My Feet kept drowsing -- drowsing -- still My fingers were awake -- Yet why so little sound -- Myself Unto my Seeming -- make? How well I knew the Light before -- I could not see it now -- 'Tis Dying -- I am doing -- but I'm not afraid to know --
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
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Language: English
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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. I would not paint a picture [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
I would not paint -- a picture -- I'd rather be the One Its bright impossibility To dwell -- delicious -- on -- And wonder how the fingers feel Whose rare -- celestial -- stir -- Evokes so sweet a Torment -- Such sumptuous -- Despair -- I would not talk, like Cornets -- I'd rather be the One Raised softly to the Ceilings -- And out, and easy on -- Through Villages of Ether -- Myself endued Balloon By but a lip of Metal -- The pier to my Pontoon -- Nor would I be a Poet -- It's finer -- own the Ear -- Enamored -- impotent -- content -- The License to revere, A privilege so awful What would the Dower be, Had I the Art to stun myself With Bolts of Melody!
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Total word count: 331