by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
So give me back to Death
Language: English
So give me back to Death -- The Death I never feared Except that it deprived of thee -- And now, by Life deprived, In my own Grave I breathe And estimate its size -- Its size is all that Hell can guess -- And all that Heaven was --
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Confirmed with Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Little, Brown, 1955
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "1632" [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 Edith Canat de Chizy (b. 1960), no title, 2001, first performed 2001 [ chorus ], from To gather paradise, no. 1, Editions Lemoine
Publisher: Henry Lemoine [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
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