Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall...

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door
Of individual life, I shall command
The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
Serenely in the sunshine as before,
Without the sense of that which I forbore...
Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land
Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double. What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine
Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue
God for myself, He bears that name of thine,
And sees within my eyes, the tears of two.

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) , no title, from Poems, in Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 6

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

by Frederic Balazs (1920-) , "Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand", published 1960 [high voice and string quartet or chamber orchestra], from Sonnets after Elizabeth Barrett Browning, no. ?
by Gena Branscombe (1881-1977) , "The widest land", published 1907 [medium voice and piano], from Love in a Life, no. 4, note: the text in this setting has omissions not noted above
by Louis Cheslock (1898-1981) , "Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand" [mezzo-soprano or tenor, piano]
by Irwin Fischer (1903-) , "Go from Me", 1957, published 1958. [soprano or tenor, piano]
by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864-1942) , "Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand", published 1907 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 6.
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) , "Nevermore Alone", published 1900 [voice, piano], from Five Songs
by Joseph M. Hopkins , "Go from Me"
by Libby Larsen (1950-) , "Go from me", first performed 1994 [voice, violoncello, and piano], from Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers, no. 6.
by Oskar Morawetz (1917-) , "Sonnet VI: Go from Me, Yet I Feel", 1955, from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 3.
by Hubert du Plessis (1922-) , "Go from me", op. 15 (Three Sonnets from the Portuguese) no. ? (1954), rev. 1973, first performed 1956. [mezzo-soprano and piano]
by Maude Valérie White (1855-1937) , "What I Do, and What I Dream" [voice, piano], note: this setting has omissions of the text not noted above
by Ralph Walter Wood (1902-) , "Sonnet", 1945, published 1974, first performed 1954. [soprano, flute, oboe, violin, viola, violoncello]

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