Vom Frühling unberührt

Die Pfirsichblüten flattern durch die Lenzluft
Wie rosafarbne Schmetterlinge; lachend
Spiegelt die schlanke Weide sich im Bach.
 
Wann endet meine Qual? Der laue Ostwind,
Der mir den Duft der blüh'nden Pflaumenbäume
Herüberträgt, findet mich schlaff und müd'.
 
Die Verse gleiten schwer von meinen Lippen.
Komm, süße Nacht! Ersticke meinen Jammer
In deinen Armen, vielgeliebter Schlaf!

Confirmed with Die Lyrik des Auslandes in neuerer Zeit, ed. Hans Bethge, Leipzig: Max Hesses Verlag, 1907, page 75

Submitted by Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

Authorship

• by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946), "Vom Frühling unberührt" [ author's text checked 1 time]

• a text in Chinese (中文) by Zhang Ruoxu (c660 - c720) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Léonard Pieter Joseph Michielsen (1872 - 1944), "Vom Frühling unberührt", from Sechs Gesänge chinesischer Lyrik, no. 2. [
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