by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Language: English 
Our translations:  GER
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.

Composition:

    Set to music by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "It's all I have to bring", alternate title: "This and my heart", 1940-44, published 1944 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 1

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


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 51