1951
When I Hoped, I Feared
Composed by
Otto Luening
Otto Luening Text by
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson Song Collection
"When I Hoped, I Feared" is the ninth and final song of Otto Luening's Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Text
When I Hoped, I Feared
by Emily Dickinson
When I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain;
Spectre cannot harm,
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath suffered him.
Sheet Music
Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Otto Luening
1. Our Share of Night to Bear
2. The Show is Not the Show
3. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
4. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
5. Experiment to Me
6. I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind
7. Few Yet Enough
8. Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?
9. When I Hoped, I Feared
2. The Show is Not the Show
3. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
4. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
5. Experiment to Me
6. I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind
7. Few Yet Enough
8. Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?
9. When I Hoped, I Feared