by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
My life closed twice before its close
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896 [author's text not yet checked 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 Ernest Gold (1921 - 1999), "Parting", published 1963 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Songs of Love and Parting [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ezra Laderman (1924 - 2015), "My life closed twice before its close", published 1870 [ 2 narrators, piano, and orchestra ], from Magic Prison [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Paul Antschel)
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , 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.
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Word count: 44