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[Warum so spät erst, Georgine?]1 Das Rosenmärchen ist erzählt Und honigsatt hat sich die Biene Ihr Bett zum Schlummer [schon gewählt]2. Sind nicht zu kalt dir diese Nächte? Wie [lebst du diese]3 Tage hin? Wenn ich dir jetzt den Frühling brächte, Du feuergelbe Träumerin. Wenn ich mit Maithau dich benetzte, [Begösse dich mit Juni-Licht]4? Doch ach, dann wärst du nicht die Letzte, Die [stolze Einzige]5 auch nicht. Wie, Träumerin, lock' ich vergebens? So reich' mir schwesterlich die Hand, Ich hab' den [Frühling]6 dieses Lebens Wie du den [Maitag]7 nicht gekannt. Und spät, wie dir, du feuergelbe, Stahl sich die Liebe [mir in's]8 Herz; Ob spät, ob früh, es ist dasselbe Entzücken [und]9 derselbe Schmerz.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gedichte von Hermann von Gilm, Erster Band, Wien: Verlag von Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1864, pages 247-248.
1 Goldmark: "Du kommst so spät, o Georgine"2 Goldmark, Strauss: "ausgewählt"
3 Goldmark: "bringst du deine"
4 Goldmark: "Gar mild ist Junis Sommerlicht"
5 Goldmark: "letzte Träumerin"
6 Strauss: "Maitag"
7 Strauss: "Frühling"
8 Goldmark: "in mein"
9 omitted by Goldmark
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg (1812 - 1864), "Die Georgine", appears in Die letzten Blätter [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 Albert Felix, Graf Amadei (1851 - 1894), "Die Georgine", op. 12 (Fünf Gesänge für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Senff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Goldmark (1830 - 1915), "An die Georgine", op. 46 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 (1889) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hermann Riedel (1847 - 1913), "Die Georgine", op. 15 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Die Georgine", op. 10 (Acht Gedichte aus "Letzte Blätter" von Hermann von Gilm) no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "The Georgina"
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "La giorgina", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Perché così tardi, giorgina? La fiaba della rosa, già narrata, e sazia di miele ha scelto già il suo letto per dormire l'ape. Non sono troppo fredde per te queste notti? Come vivi tu questi giorni? Se a te portassi la primavera, tu sognatrice colore del fuoco, se ti bagnassi con la rugiada di maggio, se ti innaffiassi con la luce di giugno, allora non saresti l'ultima, né l'unica superba. Come, sognatrice, è vano il mio amore? Porgimi la mano, da sorella, io non ho conosciuto i giorni di maggio della vita come tu la primavera, e tardi come te, dal colore di fuoco, è entrato furtivo l'amore nel mio cuore, o tardi o presto, è lo stesso incanto e lo stesso dolore.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2005 by Amelia Maria Imbarrato, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg (1812 - 1864), "Die Georgine", appears in Die letzten Blätter
This text was added to the website: 2005-10-18
Line count: 20
Word count: 123