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Meine Lieder stehen Vor deiner Tür, Sie klopfen an und bücken sich: Öffnest du mir? Meine Lieder haben Einen seidenen Klang Dem Rauschen deines Kleides gleich Im Treppengang. Meine Lieder tragen Ein Düften lind, Ganz wie in deinem Lieblingsbeet Der Hyazinth. Meine Lieder kleidet Ein schweres Rot, Das deinem seidnen Kleide gleich Knistert und loht. Meine schönsten Lieder Gleichen ganz dir. Sie stehn an der Pforte und bücken sich: Öffnest du mir?
O. Schwind sets stanzas 1-2, 4-5
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 40.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Im Scherz", written 1898 [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 Wilhelm Lache , "Im Scherz", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Im Scherz ", op. 7 no. 3 [ high voice and piano ], from Zehn romantische Lieder für mittlere Stimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Olga Schwind (1887 - 1979), "Der Page", c1922, stanzas 1-2,4-5 [ voice and lute ], from Meine Lieder stehn vor deiner Tür - Lieder zur Laute zu singen, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Xaver Zintl (1903 - 1987), "Im Scherz " [ tenor and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-21
Line count: 20
Word count: 72
My poems stand Before your door, They knock and bow: Will you open for me? My poems have A silky sound Like the rustling of your dress In the stairwell. My poems carry A gentle scent, Quite like your favourite flowerbed Of hyacinths. My poems are clothed In heavy red That, like your silk dress, Crackles and blazes. My loveliest poems Are exactly like you. They stand at your gate and bow: Will you open for me?
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View text with all available footnotesTranslations of title(s):
"Der Page" = "The pageboy"
"Im Scherz" = "In jest"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Im Scherz", written 1898
This text was added to the website: 2018-01-03
Line count: 20
Word count: 77