Spring | In dusky vaults

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Frühling

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT DUT ENG ENG FRE FRI ITA NOR SAN SPA

In dämmrigen Grüften
Träumte ich lang
Von deinen Bäumen und blauen Lüften,
Von deinem Duft und Vogelsang. 

Nun liegst du erschlossen
In Gleiß und Zier,
Von Licht übergossen
Wie ein Wunder vor mir. 

Du kennst mich wieder,
Du [lockest]¹ mich zart,
Es zittert durch all meine Glieder
Deine selige Gegenwart.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• H. Ebert • G. Rüdinger • W. Steinhauser • R. Strauss • F. Walter • F. Willi

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 45.

¹ Strauss: "lockst"

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Frühling", subtitle: "(1899)", written 1899 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Werner Bühler (1904 - 1968), "Frühling" [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Czelinski (1901 - 1969), "Frühling", 1949 [ voice, violin, and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Heinz Dankert , "Frühling" [ voice and piano ], from Zwei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Joseph A. Dasatièl (-Rinaldini) , "Frühling", published 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Ebert (1889 - 1952), "Frühling", op. 17 no. 1, published 1918 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ], from Frühling. Vier Frauenduette (Sopran und Alt) mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Erwin Hauff (1894 - 1960), "Frühling", 1955-7, published 1960 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gottfried Rüdinger (1886 - 1946), "Frühling ", op. 30 no. 7, published 1922 [ alto and piano ], from Spätblau - Ein Liederkreis nach Hermann Hesse für eine Alt-Stimme, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Walter Steinhauser , "Frühling " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Frühling", WoO. 150 no. 1 (1948), published 1950 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Vier letzte Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Fried Walter (1907 - 1996), "Frühling ", 1977 [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Sechs Lieder aus dem Tessin durch die Jahreszeiten, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by F. Willi , "Frühling " [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 50

Spring

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 In dusky vaults
 I have long dreamt
 of your trees and blue skies,
 of your scents and the songs of birds.
 
 Now you lie revealed
 in glistening splendour,
 flushed with light,
 like a wonder before me.
 
 You know me again,
 you beckon tenderly to me;
 all of my limbs quiver
 from your blissful presence!

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 54

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