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!
Love in a Life
Song Cycle by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961)
1. Love in a Life [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), appears in Men and Women, first published 1855 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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Authorship:
- by Nuar Alsadir , copyright ©
3. Ample make this bed [sung text not yet checked]
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 --
Authorship:
- 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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- 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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Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
5. The waking [sung text not yet checked]
I strolled across [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "The waking", appears in The Lost Son and Other Poems, first published 1948, copyright © [author's text not yet checked 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.6a. To you [sung text not yet checked]
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?
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "To you" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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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?
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- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "To you" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]7. Love
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Authorship:
- by Thomas Lodge (1558 - 1625)
Total word count: 296