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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Ferdinando Albeggiani

I dwell in Possibility

Language: English

Our translations: GER ITA

I dwell in Possibility - 
A fairer House than Prose - 
More numerous of Windows - 
Superior - for Doors - 

Of Chambers as the Cedars - 
Impregnable of Eye - 
And for an Everlasting Roof 
The Gambrels of the Sky - 

Of Visitors - the fairest - 
For Occupation - This - 
The spreading wide my narrow Hands 
To gather Paradise -

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "I dwell in possibility", published 1947 [ soprano and piano ], from From Emily's Diary [sung text not yet checked]
by Edith Canat de Chizy (b. 1960), no title, 2001, first performed 2001 [ satb chorus ], from To gather paradise, no. 3, Editions Lemoine
Publisher: Henry Lemoine [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
by Evan Williams (b. 1988), "I Dwell in Possibility" [ soprano and piano ], from Emily's House (10 Poems from Emily Dickinson), no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

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

GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dimoro nel possibile", copyright © 2010, (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.
Line count: 12
Word count: 50

Dimoro nel possibile

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English

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Dimoro nel possibile -
Una casa più bella della prosa -
Di finestre più ricca -
Magnifiche - le sue porte -

Come Cedri le stanze -
Impenetrabili all'occhio -
E per tetto perenne
La volta celeste -

I suoi ospiti - i più belli -
Che ci faccio? - Questo -
Tengo aperte le mie esili mani
per accogliervi il Paradiso.

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2010 by Ferdinando Albeggiani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf.

Based on:

a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 50