Remorse is memory awake (Dickinson, set by S. Kagen) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Remorse is memory awake,
Her companies astir, -
A presence of departed acts
At window and at door.

It's past set down before the soul,
And lighted with a match,
Perusal to facilitate
Of its condensed despatch.

Remorse is cureless, - the disease
Not even God can heal;
For 't is his institution, -
The complement 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)

Sergius Kagen (1909-1964)

The Mob Within the Heart

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