I'm happiest when most away

I'm happiest when most away
I can bear my soul from its home of clay
On a windy night when the moon is bright
And the eye can wander thru worlds of light

When I am not and none beside
Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky
But only spirit wandering wide
Thru infinite immensity.

by Emily Brontë (1818-1848) , no title, from The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë, published 1910

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by John Woods Duke (1899-1984) , "Worlds of Light", published 1977 [medium voice and piano], from Six Songs on Poems by Emily Brontë, no. ?
by Terry Fisk , no title, published 2002 [voice, piano], from Wuthering Heights, no. 33.
by Pamela Harrison (1915-) , "I'm happiest now when most away", 1954 [soprano or tenor and piano], from The Lonely Landscape, no. ?
by John Mitchell (1941-) , "I'm happiest when most away", op. 24 no. 7 (1977), from The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky, no. 7.

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