by
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Landschaft
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG FRE
Wälder stehen, See und Land
Wie in alten Kinderzeiten,
Und es ruhen alle Weiten
Friedevoll in Gottes Hand.
Eine stille Stunde lang
Kann ich so verzaubert schauen,
Und es schläft der alte Drang
Und es schläft des alte Grauen.
Doch ich weiß: die jetzt gebannt,
Werden balde auferstehen,
Und ich muß im grünen Land
Als ein Gast und Fremdling gehen.
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Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Richard Gress (1893 - 1988), "Landschaft", op. 85 no. 1, published 1950 [ voice, oboe, and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Landschaft ", op. 24 no. 4 [ medium voice and piano ], from Acht vermischte Lieder für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Scholz , "Landschaft ", <<1958 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Landscape", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Paysage", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs
[Guest Editor] , Pierre Mathé
[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2013-03-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 60
Landscape
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
The forests stand, lakes and countryside
As in the olden times of childhood,
And all the broad expanses rest
Peacefully in God’s hand.
For the span of a quiet hour
I can gaze [upon them] so enchanted,
And the old striving sleeps
And the old dread sleeps.
But I know: they who are now held in a spell
Shall soon come to life,
And in the green landscape I must
Walk as a guest and a stranger.
Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Landschaft", written 1910, appears in Unterwegs, first published 1911
This text was added to the website: 2019-01-16
Line count: 12
Word count: 77