Remembrance of Love's Death
Music by David Edgar Walther, Poems by Emily Dickinson
Music by David Edgar Walther, Poems by Emily Dickinson
The premiere of "Remembrance of Love's Death"
as performed by Eileen Feldman, piano, with the composer, bass. The poems, by Emily Dickinson (right), are listed above the recordings.
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1. Meeting: 'Twas such an Ample Peace -
It could not hold a Sigh - |
'Twas Sabbath - with the Bells divorced -
'Twas Sunset - all the Day |
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2. Celebration: That love is all there is
Is all there is is all we know of Love It is enough, that the freight should be |
Proportioned to the groove
That love is all there is Is all there is is all we know of Love |
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3. Sacrament: While it is alive
Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood Under one Sacrament Show me Division can split or pare - |
Love is like Life - merely longer
Love is like Death, during the Grave Love is the Fellow of Resurrection Scooping up the Dust and chanting "Live"! |
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4. Discovery:
The stray ships - passing by - Spied a face - Upon the waters borne - With eyes in death - still begging raised And hands - beseeching - thrown! |
A great Hope fell
You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in |
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5. Pain: A not admitting of the wound
Until it grew to wide |
That all my life had entered it
And there were troughs beside |
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6. Dread: Declaiming Waters none may dread -
But Waters that are still |
Are so that most fatal cause:
In Nature - they are full - |
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7. Eternal Ocean:
As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea - And that a further - and the Three - ' But a presumption be - Of Periods of Seas - Unvisited of - Themselves the Verge of Seas to be - Eternity - Eternity - is Those |
8. Tender Carpenter:
A closing of a simple lid That opened to the sun Until the tender Carpenter Perpetual nail it down - 9. Apparition: So fleet thou wert, when present - So infinite - when gone - An Orient Apparition - Remanded of the Morn - |