I live with him, I see his face

I live with him, I see his face;
I go no more away
For visitor, or sundown;
Death's single privacy,

The only one forestalling mine,
And that by right that he
Presents a claim invisible,
No wedlock granted me.

I live with him, I hear his voice,
I stand alive to-day
To witness to the certainty
Of immortality

Taught me by Time, - the lower way,
Conviction every day, -
That life like this is endless,
Be judgment what it may.

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

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

by Ezra Laderman (1924-) , no title, published 1970 [melodrama: two narrators, piano and orchestra], from Magic Prison
by Thomas Pasatieri (1945-) , "I live with him, I see his face", published 1976 [soprano, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano], from Far from love, no. 4.
by Gitta Steiner (1932-) , no title, published 1971 [SATB a cappella], from Five Poems for Mixed Chorus

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