1990


The Marigold Heart

Composed by Leo Smit

Song Collection


The Marigold Heart is the third song cycle in Leo Smit's massive song cycle The Ecstatic Pilgrimage. The Marigold Heart is made up of 15 songs.

About

The Ecstatic Pilgrimage is comprised of six song cycles, totaling 76 songs. All of the songs set the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The cycle was composed between 1988-1990. Please visit the page for The Ecstatic Pilgrimage for more information.

For inquiries about Leo Smit and to obtain sheet music, please contact Nils Vigeland at nvigeland@optonline.net.

–Christie Finn

Song List

1. So well that I can live without — | Text: Emily Dickinson
2. What shall I do — it whimpers so — | Text: Emily Dickinson
3. There came a Day at Summer’s full | Text: Emily Dickinson
4. My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun — | Text: Emily Dickinson
5. Extol thee — could I? Then I will | Text: Emily Dickinson
6. Me prove it now — Whoever doubt | Text: Emily Dickinson
7. Title divine — is mine! | Text: Emily Dickinson
8. There is a pain — so utter — | Text: Emily Dickinson
9. That first Day, when you praised Me, Sweet | Text: Emily Dickinson
10. Wild Nights — Wild Nights! | Text: Emily Dickinson
11. Is it too late to touch you, Dear? | Text: Emily Dickinson
12. I reason, Earth is short — | Text: Emily Dickinson
13. A Wife — at daybreak I shall be — | Text: Emily Dickinson
14. The face I carry with me — last — | Text: Emily Dickinson
15. I have no Life but this — | Text: Emily Dickinson