by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
To be alive is power
Language: English
To be alive is power, Existence in itself, Without a further function, Omnipotence enough. To be alive and Will - 'T is able as a God! The Further of ourselves be what - Such being Finitude?
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in The Single Hound, first published 1914 [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 Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923 - 2006), "To be alive", published 1963 [SSAA chorus and piano or chamber orchestra], from An Emily Dickinson Mosaic [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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