Song Cycle by Ernest Gold (1921-)

?. Parting

Authorship

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

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GER German (Paul Celan) , title unknown, copyright ©
GER German (Walter A. Aue) , title unknown, copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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.

?. Time does not bring relief

Authorship

by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) , title unknown, from Renascence and Other Poems, in Sonnets, no. 2, published 1917

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Time does not bring relief: you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain:
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from ev'ry mountain side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart and my old thoughts abide.

There are a hundred places where I fear
To go, so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
where never fell his foot or shone his face.
I say "There is no mem'ry of him here,"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.

?. Peace

Authorship

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

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I many times thought peace had come,
When peace was far away;
As wrecked men deem they sight the land
At centre of the sea,

And struggle slacker, but to prove,
As hopelessly as I,
How many the fictitious shores
Before the harbor lie.

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