Julinächte
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Wie ich euch hasse, ihr Nächte voll Duft
Mit dem schweren, trunkenen Odem,
Mit der weichen, sehnsuchtsschwangeren Luft
Und dem schwülen, betäubenden Brodem!
Wo ihr ein einsames Herze wißt,
Da drängt ihr und schmeichelt, droht und küßt,
Bis es verloren, verdorben ist.
Lieder, die die Sehnsucht sann,
Schleier, die die Sünde spann,
Blumen, die dem Sumpf entblühten,
Flammen, die im Abgrund glühten,
Bringt ihr mit als Hochzeitsgaben,
Schenkt ihr denen,
Die in Thränen
Euch sich hingegeben haben.
Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Gedichte, Neunte Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 90.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "July nights", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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July nights
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
How I hate you, you scent-filled nights
With your heavy, intoxicated breath,
With your soft air, pregnant with yearning
And your humid, numbing vapours!
Where you know there is a lonely heart,
You rush in and flatter, threaten, and kiss,
Until it is lost, has perished!
Songs that yearning imagined,
Veils spun by sin,
Flowers that blossomed in a swamp,
Flames that glowed in the abyss,
You bring as bridal gifts,
You give to those
Who in tears
Have offered themselves to you.
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This text was added to the website: 2023-10-12
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