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by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)
Translation © by Emily Ezust

Ferne Lieder
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FRE
Rosen!
Ein Zypressenhain,
Alte Brunnen fließen.
Auf dem Meer im Abendschein
Schwarze Schwalben schießen.

Aus der weißen Villa dringt
Eine sanfte Klage:
Eine Frau, die spielt und singt
Lieder andrer Tage.

Eine große Stille spinnt,
die Fontänen steigen.
Und die fernen Lieder sind
Laut geword'nes Schweigen

Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866) [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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Ferne Lieder", 1904-5 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. I (1901-04), no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , "Cançons llunyanes", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Distant songs", copyright © 2015
  • FRE French (Français) (Jean-Pierre Granger) , "Chansons lointaines", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Jakob Kellner

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 46

Distant songs
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
Roses!
A grove of cypress trees
Where ancient springs are flowing.
Over the sea in the twilight 
Black swallows are darting.

From the white villa there comes 
A gentle dirge:
A woman plays and sings
Songs of another day.

A great silence is spun,
The fountains rise.
And the distant songs are
A silence that becomes loud.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2015 by Emily Ezust

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  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-06-17
Line count: 13
Word count: 57

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