My life closed twice before its close (Dickinson, set by E. Gold, E. Laderman) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


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.

Authorship

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Poems by 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)

Ernest Gold (1921-)

Songs of Love and Parting

Ezra Laderman (1924-)

Magic Prison

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

GER

German

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