by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Without a smile ‑‑ Without a Throe
Language: English
Without a smile -- Without a Throe A Summer's soft Assemblies go To their entrancing end Unknown -- for all the times we met -- Estranged, however intimate -- What a dissembling Friend --
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Bolts of Melody, first published 1945 [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 Donald Grantham (b. 1947), "Without a smile -- without a throe", published 1983 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Seven Choral Settings of Poems by Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-06-03
Line count: 6
Word count: 30