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by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

Sonnet VI: Go from Me, Yet I Feel
 (Sung text for setting by O. Morawetz)
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Language: English 
Our translations:  GER
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door
Of individual life, I shall command
The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
Serenely in the sunshine as before,
Without the sense of that which I forbore...
Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land
Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double. What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine
Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue
God for myself, He bears that name of thine,
And sees within my eyes, the tears of two.

Composition:

    Set to music by Oskar Morawetz (b. 1917), "Sonnet VI: Go from Me, Yet I Feel", 1955, from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 3

Text Authorship:

  • by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), no title, appears in Poems, in Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 6

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Weiche, geh", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Rainer Maria Rilke) , no title, appears in Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen, no. 6, first published 1908


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 114

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