by
Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
The lake lay blue below the hill
Language: English
Our translations: DUT FRE GER
The lake lay blue below the hill,
O'er it, as I looked, there flew
Across the waters, cold and still,
A bird whose wings were palest blue.
The sky above was blue at last,
The sky beneath me blue in blue,
A moment, ere the bird had passed,
It caught his image as he flew.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Nicolaas (Koos) Jaspers) , copyright © 1998, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Dwain Richardson) , "L'oiseau bleu", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Martin Stock) , "Der blaue Vogel", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 55
Der blaue Vogel
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Blau lag der See am Fuße des Berges.
Als ich aufsah, flog über das kalte, ruhige Wasser
ein Vogel, dessen Schwingen von blassestem Blau waren.
Der Himmel über mir war endlich blau,
der Himmel unter mir war Blau in Blau;
Kurz bevor der Vogel vorübergezogen war
war sein Bild im Fluge eingefangen.
Blau lag der See am Fuße des Berges.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2001 by Martin Stock, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907), "L'oiseau bleu", appears in Poems, no. 52, first published 1907
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 60