Dickinson Songs: Because I could not (Kenneth Langer)
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- (Posted 2025-05-20) CPDL #84991:
- Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-20). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 112 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Dickinson Songs: Because I Could Not
Composer: Kenneth Langer
Lyricist: Emily Dickinson
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 2025
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Original text and translations
English text
Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality. We slowly drove, He knew no haste, and I had put away my labor, and my leisure too, for his civility. We passed the school where children strove at recess in the ring; we passed the fields of gazing grain, we passed the setting sun or maybe he passed us. The dews drew quivering and chill, for only gossamer, my gown. My tippet only Tulle. We paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground. The roof was scarcely visible, the cornice in the ground. Since then 'tis centuries and yet feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads were toward eternity.