Love is...

Song Cycle by David Sisco

1. Love is [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Love -- is that later Thing than Death -
More previous -- than Life -
Confirms it at its entrance -- And
Usurps it -- of itself -

Tastes Death -- the first -- to hand the sting
The Second -- to its friend -
Disarms the little interval -
Deposits Him with God -

Then hovers -- an inferior Guard -
Lest this Beloved Charge
Need -- once in an Eternity -
A smaller than the Large -

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title

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2. The letter

Language: English

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

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3. I hide myself within my flower [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too --
And angels know the rest.

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

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I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.

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4. When roses cease to bloom [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

When roses cease to bloom, [dear]¹, 
And violets are done,
When bumble-bees in solemn flight
Have passed beyond the sun,

The hand that passed to gather
Upon this summer's day
Will idle lie, in Auburn, --
Then take my flower, pray!

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, written 1858, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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¹ Peros follows another version of this poem: "sir"

Note for stanza 2, line 3: "Auburn" refers to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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5. It's all I have to bring today [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

It's all I have to bring today --
This, and my heart beside --
This, and my heart, and all the fields --
And all the meadows wide --
Be sure you count -- should I forget
Some one the sum could tell --
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.

Text Authorship:

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

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GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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6. 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.

Text Authorship:

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

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7. The outlet [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

My river runs to thee:
Blue sea, wilt welcome me?

My river waits reply.
Oh sea, look graciously!

I'll fetch thee brooks
From spotted nooks, -

Say, sea, take me!

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "The outlet", appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890

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8. Heart, we will forget him [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Heart, we will forget him
You and I, tonight.
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.

When you have done, pray tell me,
That I [my thoughts may dim]¹;
Haste! lest while you're lagging,
I may remember him!

Text Authorship:

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

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¹ another version (Dickinson): "may straight begin"

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