C'è qualcosa di vuoto nel dolore

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Pain — has an Element of Blank —

Language: English

Our translations: GER GER ITA

Pain — has an Element of Blank —
It cannot recollect
When it begun — or if there were
A time when it was not —

It has no Future — but itself —
Its Infinite realms contain
Its Past — enlightened to perceive
New Periods — of Pain.

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [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 Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "Pain has an element of blank", published 1956 [ voice and clarinet or chamber orchestra ], from The Mob Within the Heart [sung text not yet checked]
by Logan Skelton , "Pain – has an Element of Blank", 2008 [ soprano and piano ], from Dickinson Songs, Book 2: The Unknown Peninsula, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Starer (1924 - 2001), "Pain has an element of blank", published 1969 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from On the Nature of Things [sung text not yet checked]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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C'è qualcosa di vuoto nel dolore

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English

C'è qualcosa di vuoto nel dolore -
non ha memoria
del suo principio - o se mai fu,
senza di esso, vissuto un giorno.

Il suo futuro: sta in esso stesso -
Il suo infinito abbraccia
il suo passato, illuminato per percepire
nuovi tempi - di dolore.

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
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This text was added to the website: 2011-03-06
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Word count: 43