1951


When I Hoped, I Feared

Composed by Otto Luening

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.

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