Remembrance of Love's Death
Music by David Edgar Walther, Poems by Emily Dickinson
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 |
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 |
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"! |
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 |
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 |
6. Dread: Declaiming Waters none may dread -
But Waters that are still |
Are so that most fatal cause:
In Nature - they are full - |
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 - |