Three Songs: Texts by E.E. Cummings (2003)
Vocal Texts:
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
Copyright 1952 by Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust.
Used by permission.
[love is a place]
love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds
Copyright 1935 by Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust.
Used by Permission.
[your little voice]
your little voice
Over the wires came leaping
and i felt suddenly
dizzy
With the jostling and shouting of merry flowers
wee skipping high-heeled flames
courtesied before my eyes
or twinkling over to my side
Looked up
with impertinently exquisite faces
floating hands were laid upon me
I was whirled and tossed into delicious dancing
up
Up
with the pale important
stars and the Humorous
moon
dear girl
How i was crazy how i cried when i heard
over time
and tide and death
leaping
Sweetly
your voice
Copyright 1923. Public Domain.
Douglas Fisk / E.E. Cummings
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
Jonathan Taylor, voice
Douglas Fisk, piano
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Douglas Fisk / E.E. Cummings
[love is a place]
Jonathan Taylor, voice
Douglas Fisk, piano
score sample

Douglas Fisk / E. E. Cummings
[your little voice]
Jonathan Taylor, voice
Douglas Fisk, piano
score sample
