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Love in a Life

Song Cycle by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961)

1. Love in a Life  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her,
Next time, herself! -- not the trouble behind her
Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume!
As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew, -- 
Yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather.

Yet the day wears,
And door succeeds door;
I try the fresh fortune -- 
Range the wide house from the wing to the centre.
Still the same chance! she goes out as I enter.
Spend my whole day in the quest, -- who cares?
But 'tis twilight, you see, -- with such suites to explore,
Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), appears in Men and Women, first published 1855

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2. Congedo

Language: English 
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Text Authorship:

  • by Nuar Alsadir , copyright ©

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3. Ample make this bed  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Ample make this Bed --
Make this Bed with Awe --
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.

Be its Mattress straight --
Be its Pillow round --
Let no Sunrise' yellow noise
Interrupt this Ground --

Text Authorship:

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

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Rendi spazioso questo letto", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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4. Stanzas for Music

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Text Authorship:

  • by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

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5. The waking  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I strolled across
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "The waking", appears in The Lost Son and Other Poems, first published 1948, copyright ©

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6a. To you  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Stranger, if you passing, meet me,
And desire to speak to me,
Why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?

Text Authorship:

  • by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "To you"

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6b. To you  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Stranger, if you passing, meet me,
And desire to speak to me,
Why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?

Text Authorship:

  • by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "To you"

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7. Love

Language: English 
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Text Authorship:

  • by Thomas Lodge (1558 - 1625)

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Total word count: 296
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