Que j'ai toujours aimé | Que j'ai toujours aimé

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

That I did always love

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

That I did always love,
I bring thee proof:
That till I loved
I did not love enough.

That I shall love alway,
I offer thee
That love is life,
And life hath immortality.

This, dost thou doubt, sweet?
Then have I
Nothing to show
But Calvary.

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [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 Peter Mennin (1923 - 1983), "That I did always love", published 1979 [ SSA chorus, harp, piano, and percussion ], from Reflections of Emily [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Pasatieri (b. 1945), "That I did always love", published 1976 [ soprano, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano ], from Far from love, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]

Set in a modified version by Jake Heggie, Logan Skelton.

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Que j'ai toujours aimé", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 12
Word count: 47

Que j'ai toujours aimé

Language: French (Français) after the English

Que j'ai toujours aimé,
Je t'en apporte la Preuve
Que jusqu'à ce que j'aime
Je n'ai jamais vécu — c'est Assez —

Que j'aimerai toujours —
Je t'en persuade
Que l'amour est la vie —
Et que la vie a l'Immortalité —

Ceci — si tu en doutes — Chéri —
Alors je n'ai
Rien à montrer
Si ce n'est mon Calvaire —

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Based on:

a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
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This text was added to the website: 2018-03-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 63