Schlafen, Schlafen, nichts als Schlafen!
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG FRE ITA NOR
Schlafen, Schlafen, nichts als Schlafen!
Kein Erwachen, [keinen Traum!]1
Jener Wehen, die mich trafen,
Leisestes Erinnern kaum,
Daß ich, wenn des Lebens Fülle
Niederklingt in meine Ruh',
Nur noch tiefer mich verhülle,
Fester zu die Augen thu'!
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Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich Hebbel. Gesammt-Ausgabe stark vermehrt und verbessert, Stuttgart und Augsburg, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1857, page 277.
1 Schoeck: "kein Traum"
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Dem Schmerz sein Recht", op. 2 (Vier Gesänge) no. 1 (1910) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Schlafen, schlafen", op. 15 (24 Lieder) no. 21 (1992-2004) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Schlafen, Schlafen, nichts als Schlafen", op. 14 (Vier Lieder für tiefere Stimme und Klavier) no. 4 (1907) [ low voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Adam Taylor (b. 1981), "Schlafen, Schlafen", op. 28 no. 3 (2003) [ SSAA chorus a cappella ], from Four Songs of Calm, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anna Teichmüller (1861 - 1940), "Schlafen, Schlafen", op. 24 (Fünf Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier ) no. 5, published 1910 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Dreililien [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Trunk (1879 - 1968), "Schlafen, Schlafen", op. 41 (Sechs Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Jakob Kellner) , "To sleep, to sleep, nothing but to sleep!", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "À la douleur son dû", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dormire, dormire, null'altro che dormire", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Jakob Kellner
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37
To sleep, to sleep, nothing but to sleep!
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
To sleep, to sleep, nothing but to sleep!
No awaking, no dream!
Of those sorrows that I suffered,
hardly the faintest recollection.
So that I, when the fullness of life
reverberates into my rest,
I will only cover myself even more deeply,
and more tightly close my eyes!
Text Authorship:
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 49