by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Most she touched me by her muteness
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
Most she touched me by her muteness - Most she won me by the way She presented her small figure - Plea itself - for Charity - Were a Crumb my whole possession - Were there famine in the land - Were it my resource from starving - Could I such a plea withstand - Not upon her knee to thank me Sank this Beggar from the Sky - But the Crumb partook - departed - And returned On High - I supposed - when sudden Such a Praise began 'Twas as Space sat singing To herself - and men - 'Twas the Winged Beggar - Afterward I learned To her Benefactor Making Gratitude
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1960], pages 372-373.
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, written c1863, first published 1929 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "The winged beggar", 1997/2002, published 2007 [high voice and piano], from the collection An Amherst Bestiary, no. 4, Peters Edition [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , title 1: "Die beflügelte Bettlerin", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2014-04-15
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