Dickinson Songs: I heard a fly (Kenneth Langer)

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• (Posted 2025-05-20)  CPDL #84992:         

Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-20).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Dickinson Songs: I Heard A Fly
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

I heard a fly buzz when I died. The stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry and breaths were gath'ring sure for the last onset when the king be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes signed away what portion of me I could make assignable and then there interposed a fly with blue uncertain stumbling buzz between the light and me and then the windows failed and I could not see to see.