Sentiment au crépuscule | Qu'est-ce là qui me pousse à partir d'ici ?

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by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Dämmerempfindung

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: FRE

Was treibt mich [hier]¹ von hinnen?
  Was lockt mich dort geheimnisvoll?
Was ist's, das ich gewinnen,
  Und was, womit ich's kaufen soll?

Trat unsichtbar mein Erbe,
  Ein Geist, ein luft'ger, schon heran,
Und drängt mich, daß ich sterbe,
  Weil er nicht eher leben kann?

Und winkt mir aus der Ferne
  Die Traube schon, die mir gereift
Auf einem andern Sterne,
  Und will, daß meine Hand sie streift?

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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 212.

¹ Mendelssohn: "so"; further changes may exist not noted above.

Text Authorship:

by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863), "Dämmer-Empfindung", written 1843, appears in Gedichte, in 3. Vermischte Gedichte, first published 1857 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), "Dämmerempfindung", 1861 [sung text not yet checked]
by Arnold Mendelssohn (1855 - 1933), "Dämmerempfindung", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge, no. 21, Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Sentiment au crépuscule", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2007-11-21
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Word count: 68

Sentiment au crépuscule

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Qu'est-ce là qui me pousse à partir d'ici ?
Qu'est-ce qui m'attire secrètement là-bas ?
Qu'est ce que je veux obtenir,
Et avec quoi devrais le payer ?

Mon héritier avance-t-il invisible,
Fantôme éthéré, déjà par ici,
Et me pousse-t-il vers la mort,
Car il ne peut vivre avant ?

Et me montre-t-il de loin
La grappe déjà mûrie pour moi
Sur une autre étoile,
Et veut-il que ma main l'égrène ?

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a text in German (Deutsch) by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863), "Dämmer-Empfindung", written 1843, appears in Gedichte, in 3. Vermischte Gedichte, first published 1857
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This text was added to the website: 2015-09-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 67