by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
And this of all my hopes
Language: English
Our translations: GER
And this of all my hopes, This, is the silent end. Bountiful colored, My Morning rose, Early and sere, its end. Never Bud from a Stem Stepped with so gay a Foot, Never a Worm so confident Bored at so brave a Root.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, 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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "And this of all my hopes", alternate title: "Eden", c1936, published 1944 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Five Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Scott Gendel (b. 1977), "The silent end", 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Forgotten Light, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- 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: 2004-05-06
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Word count: 43