by
Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)
Sommernacht
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG FIN
Ähren und Blumen sanken
unter unserm Schritt.
Den Duft der Reife nahmst du
im Haare mit.
Und taumelig weiter und weiter
in Ähren und Blumen hinein!
Über uns sangen die Sterne,
und du wardst mein . . .
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Confirmed with Albert Sergel, Jenseits der Straße. Gedichte und Stimmungen, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckmann & Wette), 1905, page 20.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Summer night . .", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Kesäyö", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Summer night . .
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Wheat stalks and flowers bent
under our steps.
You took the scent of ripeness
With you in your hair.
And reeling farther and farther
into the wheat and flowers!
Above us the stars sang,
and you became1 mine . . .
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