by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Denial — is the only fact
Language: English
Denial — is the only fact Perceived by the Denied — Whose Will — a numb significance — The Day the Heaven died — And all the Earth strove common round — Without Delight, or Beam — What comfort was it Wisdom — was — The spoiler of Our Home?
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Confirmed with Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Volume 1, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, p.826
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "Denial — is the only fact", appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson, 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 Joshua Shank (b. 1980), "Denial", 2011 [ voice and piano ], from Services of Snow, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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