1990
I have no Life but this —
Composed by
Leo Smit
Leo Smit Text by
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson The Marigold Heart Song Collection
"I have no Life but this —" is the fifteenth and final song in Leo Smit's song cycle The Marigold Heart. The Marigold Heart is the third of Smit's six song cycles setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
For more information about Leo Smit's Emily Dickinson song cycles, please visit the pages for The Ecstatic Pilgrimage and Leo Smit.
For inquiries about Leo Smit and to obtain sheet music, please contact Nils Vigeland at nvigeland@optonline.net.
Text
I have no Life but this — (poem 1398)
by Emily Dickinson
I have no Life but this —
To lead it here —
Nor any Death — but lest
Dispelled from there —
Nor tie to Earths to come —
Nor Action new —
Except through this extent —
The Realm of you —