I shall know why (Dickinson, set by A. Farwell) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.

He will tell me what Peter promised,
And I, for wonder at his woe,
I shall forget the drop of anguish
That scalds me now, that scalds me now.

Authorship

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Poems of Emily Dickinson

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

Arthur Farwell (1872-1952)

Two Poems by Emily Dickinson

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

FRE

French

ITA

Italian

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