DAVID EDGAR WALTHER DEEP PASSIONATE NIGHT MUSIC
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Remembrance of Love's Death

Music by David Edgar Walther, Poems by Emily Dickinson 

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The premiere of "Remembrance of Love's Death"
​as performed by Eileen Feldman, piano,
​with the composer. The poems, by Emily Dickinson (right), are listed above the recordings.

1.  Meeting: 'Twas such an Ample Peace -
It could not hold a Sigh -
'Twas Sabbath - with the Bells divorced  -
​'Twas Sunset - all the Day
DavidEdgarWalther · Remembrance of Love's Death 1
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
DavidEdgarWalther · Remembrance of Love's Death 2
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"!
DavidEdgarWalther · Remembrance of Love's Death 3
4. Discovery:
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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​
DavidEdgarWalther · Remembrance of Love's Death 4
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 ​
DavidEdgarWalther · Remembrance of Love's Death 5
6. Dread: Declaiming Waters none may dread -
But Waters that are still 
Are so that most fatal cause:
​In Nature - they are full -​
DavidEdgarWalther · Remembrance of Love's Death 6
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 -
DavidEdgarWalther · Remembrance of Love's Death 7, 8 & 9
David Edgar Walther Copyright 2023
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