4 Choruses of Emily Dickinson

Song Cycle by Gitta Steiner (1932 - 1990)

Translated to:

German (Deutsch) — Vier Chöre auf Gedichte von Emily Dickinson (Bertram Kottmann)

?. I have no life but this [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

I have no life but this,
To lead it here;
Nor any death, but lest
Dispelled from there;

Nor tie to earths to come,
Nor action new,
Except through this extent,
The realm of you.

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891

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GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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?. Our share of night to bear [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Our share of night to bear,
Our share of morning,
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning.

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way.
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards - day!

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890

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GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Mit an der Nacht zu tragen", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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?. I'm nobody [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd [banish us]¹, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell [your]² name the livelong [day]³
To an admiring bog!

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891

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¹ Bacon, G. Coates: "advertise"
² Bacon, G. Coates: "one's"
³ Bacon, G. Coates: "June"

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?. Summer for Thee [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Summer for thee grant I may be
  When summer days are flown!
Thy music still when whippoorwill
  And oriole are done!

For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
  And [sow]¹ my blossoms o'er!
Pray gather me, Anemone,
  Thy flower forevermore!

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896

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Confirmed with Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000 http://www.bartleby.com/113/3040.html
¹ in the Franklin edition, "row"

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