Here, where the Daisies fit my Head
'Tis easiest to lie
And every Grass that plays outside
Is sorry, some, for me.

Where I am not afraid to go
I may confide my Flower --
Who was not Enemy of Me
Will gentle be, to Her.

Nor separate, Herself and Me
By Distances become --
A single Bloom we constitute
Departed, or at Home --

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Note: daisies are associated with the grave; cf. http://www.edickinson.org/words/5254

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [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 Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "Here, where the Daisies fit my Head", 1999, first performed 1998 [ soprano, flute, violin, cello, and piano ], from From Emily's Garden, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by James Sclater , "Here, where the Daisies fit my Head", 1972 [ soprano and clarinet ], from Four Songs on Texts of Emily Dickinson, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , no title, copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-05-01
Line count: 12
Word count: 63