by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall...
Language: English
Our translations: GER
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore... Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself, He bears that name of thine, And sees within my eyes, the tears of two.
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Text Authorship:
- by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), no title, appears in Poems, in Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 6 [author's text not yet checked 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 Frederic Balazs (b. 1920), "Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand", published 1960 [ high voice and string quartet or chamber orchestra ], from Sonnets after Elizabeth Barrett Browning [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gena Branscombe (1881 - 1977), "The widest land", published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ], from Love in a Life, no. 4, note: the text in this setting has omissions not noted above [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Cheslock (1898 - 1981), "Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand" [ mezzo-soprano or tenor, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irwin Fischer (b. 1903), "Go from me", 1957, published 1958 [ soprano or tenor, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864 - 1942), "Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand", published 1907 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "Nevermore Alone", published 1900 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph M. Hopkins , "Go from Me" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Libby Larsen (b. 1950), "Go from me", first performed 1994 [ voice, violoncello, and piano ], from Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oskar Morawetz (b. 1917), "Sonnet VI: Go from Me, Yet I Feel", 1955, from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hubert du Plessis (b. 1922), "Go from me", op. 15 (Three Sonnets from the Portuguese) no. ? (1954), rev. 1973, first performed 1956 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), "Go from me", 1977, first performed 1978 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Songs of Love and Sorrow, no. 7, Furore Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "What I do, and what I dream", published 1884 [ voice and piano ], note: this setting has omissions of the text not noted above ; London: Chappell & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ralph Walter Wood (b. 1902), "Sonnet", 1945, published 1974, first performed 1954 [ soprano, flute, oboe, violin, viola, violoncello ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Weiche, geh", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Rainer Maria Rilke) , no title, appears in Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen, no. 6, first published 1908
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 114