Being apart and lonely is like rain [ ... ]
Three songs of longing
Song Cycle by Martin Watt (b. 1970)
1. Loneliness  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Robert Bly (b. 1926), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Einsamkeit", written 1902, appears in Das Buch der Bilder
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.2. Slumber song  [sung text checked 1 time]
Some day, if I should ever lose you, will you be able then to go [to sleep]1 without me softly whispering above you like night air stirring in the linden tree? Without my waking here and watching and saying words as tender as eyelids that come to rest weightlessly upon your breast, upon your sleeping limbs, upon your lips? Without my touching you and leaving you alone with what is yours, like a summer garden that is overflowing with masses of melissa and star-anise?
Authorship:
- by Albert Ernest Flemming , no title
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Schlaflied", written 1908, appears in Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Stefan Berger, Dieter Sicker, Classics in Spectroscopy Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Natural Products, Wiley, 2009, p.618
1 Watt: "asleep"Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
3. You, you only, exist  [sung text checked 1 time]
You, you only, exist [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
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