Dream of my mother | Outside upon the warm meadows

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Traum von der Mutter

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Draußen auf den warmen Wiesen
Will ich nach den Wolken sehen
Und die müden Augen schließen
Und ins Träumeland hinüber
Hin zu meiner Mutter gehen.

Oh, sie hat mich schon vernommen!
Leise geht sie mir entgegen,
Der ich ferneher gekommen,
Meine Stirne, meine Hände,
Still in ihren Schoß zu legen.

Wird sie jetzt nach Dingen fragen,
Die ich nur mit Scham gestehe
Und mit bitterlichen Klagen?
Nein, sie lacht! Sie lacht und freut sich
Meiner lang vermißten Nähe.

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Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Traum von der Mutter", written 1904, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Irrwege, first published 1919 [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 Hermann Grabner (1886 - 1969), "Traum von der Mutter", 1950/1 [ voice and piano ], from Acht Hermann Hesse-Lieder, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Johannes Schmiedel (b. 1921), "Traum von der Mutter ", 1983 [ voice and guitar ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Johannes Schmiedel (b. 1921), "Traum von der Mutter ", op. 106 no. 1 (1986) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Dream of my mother", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Rêve de ma mère", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-06
Line count: 15
Word count: 78

Dream of my mother

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Outside upon the warm meadows
I shall look toward the clouds
And close my weary eyes
And wander over to my mother
In the land of dreams.

Oh, she has already perceived me!
Quietly she walks toward me,
Who came from far away,
To lay my brow, my hands
Silently into her lap.

Shall she now ask about things
To which I admit only with shame
And with bitter lamentations?
No, she laughs! She laughs and rejoices in
My nearness, which she has missed for a long time.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Traum von der Mutter", written 1904, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Irrwege, first published 1919
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This text was added to the website: 2018-03-10
Line count: 15
Word count: 88