O wie schön das Licht Heut im Schnee verblüht, O wie zart die rosige Ferne glüht! -- Aber Sommer, Sommer ist es nicht. Du, zu der mein Lied allstündlich spricht, Ferne Brautgestalt, O wie zart mir deine Freundschaft strahlt! -- Aber Liebe, Liebe ist es nicht. Lang muß Mondschein der Freundschaft blühn, Lange muß ich stehn im Schnee, Bis einst du und Himmel, Berg und See Tief im Sommerbrand der Liebe glühn.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 270.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Wintertag", written c1919, appears in Gedichte des Malers, no. 10 [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 Peter Escher (1915 - 2008), "Wintertag", op. 15 no. 19 (1945) [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ferdinand Gerhardt, jun. (1888 - 1985), "Wintertag" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Krause (1889 - ?), "Wintertag", op. 48 no. 10 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A winter’s day", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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