by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
No matter ‑ now ‑ Sweet
Language: English
Our translations: GER
No matter - now - Sweet - But when I'm Earl - Won't you wish you'd spoken To that dull Girl? Trivial a Word - just - Trivial - a Smile - But won't you wish you'd spared one When I'm Earl? I shan't need it - then - Crests - will do - Eagles on my Buckles - On my Belt - too - Ermine - my familiar Gown - Say - Sweet - then Won't you wish you'd smiled - just - Me upon?
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Bolts of Melody [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 Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "No matter - now - Sweet", published 1978, from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , no title, copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 65