Song Cycle by Gitta Steiner (1932-)

?. I have no life but this

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by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1891

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I have no life but this,
To lead it here;
Nor any death, but lest
Dispelled from there;

Nor tie to earths to come,
Nor action new,
Except through this extent,
The realm of you.

?. I'm nobody

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by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1891

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Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

GER German (Walter A. Aue)
ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd [banish us]1, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell [your]2 name the livelong [day]3
To an admiring bog!

?. Our share of night to bear

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by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems of Emily Dickinson, published 1890

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Our share of night to bear,
Our share of morning,
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning.

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way.
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards - day!

?. Summer for Thee

Authorship

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1896

Summer for thee grant I may be
When summer days are flown!
Thy music still when whippoorwill
And oriole are done!

For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
And sow my blossoms o'er!
Pray gather me, Anemone,
Thy flower forevermore!

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