by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
I live with him, I see his face
Language: English
I live with him, I see his face; I go no more away For visitor, or sundown; Death's single privacy, The only one forestalling mine, And that by right that he Presents a claim invisible, No wedlock granted me. I live with him, I hear his voice, I stand alive to-day To witness to the certainty Of immortality Taught me by Time, - the lower way, Conviction every day, - That life like this is endless, Be judgment what it may.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896 [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 Ezra Laderman (1924 - 2015), no title, published 1970 [ melodrama: 2 narrators, piano and orchestra ], from Magic Prison [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Pasatieri (b. 1945), "I live with him, I see his face", published 1976 [ soprano, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano ], from Far from love, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gitta Steiner (1932 - 1990), no title, published 1971 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Poems for Mixed Chorus [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 79