by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Elysium is as far as to
Language: English
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity or doom. What fortitude the soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming foot, The opening of a door!
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [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 Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917 - 1995), "Elysium is as far", published 1964 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from Emily Dickinson Set [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Weiss (1891 - 1971), "Elysium", 1928, published c1930 [ soprano and string quartet ], from Seven Songs for Soprano and String Quartet, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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