by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by Jan Śliwiński (1884 - 1950), as Hans Effenberger
I plucked your flower, O world!
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
I plucked your flower, O world! I pressed it to my heart and the thorn pricked. When the day waned and it darkened, I found that the flower had faded, but the pain remained. More flowers will come to you with perfume and pride, O world! But my time for flower-gathering is over, and through the dark night I have not my rose, only the pain remains.
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Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 57 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Alistair Hinton (b. 1950), "I plucked your flower", op. 7 no. 3 (1970) [ high soprano and piano ], from Five Songs of Tagore, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by František Balej (1873 - 1918) ; composed by Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Jan Śliwiński (1884 - 1950) , no title, appears in Rabindranath Tagore. Der Gärtner, no. 57, first published 1916 ; composed by Hanns Eisler, Hans Gál.
- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Franco Alfano, Giulio Balestrazzi.
- Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Manuel M. Ponce.
- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Andrea Butenschön (1866 - 1948) ; composed by Lennart Hedwall.
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- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Erkki Gustaf Melartin.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "J'ai cueilli ta fleur", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-02-07
Line count: 10
Word count: 67
Ich pflückte deine Blume, o Welt!
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Ich pflückte deine Blume, o Welt! Ich drückte sie an mein Herz und der Dorn stach. Als der Tag ging und es dunkelte, fand ich, daß die Blume verwelkt war, doch der Schmerz war geblieben. Mehr Blumen werden zu dir kommen mit Duft und Stolz, o Welt! Doch meine Zeit zum Blumenpflücken ist vorüber; und die dunkle Nacht lang hab' ich meine Rose nicht, nur die Pein bleibt.
About the headline (FAQ)
Text Authorship:
- by Jan Śliwiński (1884 - 1950), as Hans Effenberger, no title, appears in Rabindranath Tagore. Der Gärtner, no. 57, first published 1916 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 57
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Ich pflückte deine Blume", 1918 [ voice and piano (or instrumental ensemble) ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Gál (1890 - 1987), "Ich pflückte deine Blume", op. 5 no. 2 (1919), published 1923, first performed 1919 [ alto solo, women's chorus, clarinet, horn, harp (or piano) and string quartet (or strings) ], from Phantasien nach Gedichten von Rabindranath Tagore, no. 2, Universal Edition, Vienna [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-02-07
Line count: 10
Word count: 68