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Bind me -- I still can sing Banish -- my mandolin Strikes true within --. Slay -- and my Soul shall rise Chanting to Paradise -- Still thine.
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Authorship
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Bolts of Melody [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 Gloria Coates (b. 1938), "Bind me - I still can sing", from 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 12. [text verified 1 time]
- by Libby Larsen (b. 1950), "Bind me - I still can sing", 1999 [satb chorus a cappella], from By a departing light, no. 1. [text not verified]
- by Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964), "Bind me -- I still can sing", 2002, first performed 2002 [solo soprano, SATB chorus and orchestra], from Chanting to Paradise, no. 5. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Fessle mich - kann dennoch singen", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Fessle mich - kann dennoch singen - weis’ mich ab - die Saiten klingen doch treu in mir. Töte mich - zum Paradies aufschwingen wird meine Seele sich und singen - noch immer dein.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Bolts of Melody
This text was added to the website: 2016-03-01
Line count: 6
Word count: 34