by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Die Strasse...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Die Strasse war zu leer its emptiness had gotten bored pulled my steps out from under my feet und klappte mit ihm herum drüben und da wie mit einem Holzschuh... the woman die Frau erschrak und hob sich aus sich ab zu schnel zu heftig so daß das Gesicht she pulled out of herself so quickly, so daß das Gesicht in den zwei Händen blieb... Ich fing an, leise zu gehen I could see it lyig their seine hohle Form it cost me an indescribable effort to stay with those two hands not to look at what had been torn out of them Ich fing an leise zu gehen... Mir graute ein Gesicht von innen zu sehen But I was much more afraid of that bare wounded head waiting there vor dem bloßen wunden Kopf ohne Gesicht Ich lerne sehen Ja, ich fange an habe ich es schon gesagt?
Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) [author's text not yet checked 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 Joseph Butch Rovan , "Die Strasse..." [ voice ], from Vis-à-vis, no. 5, note: performance also includes real-time electronics and interactive video [sung text checked 1 time]
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