Sommernacht
Language: German (Deutsch)
O dunkelglühende Sommernacht!
Geigen locken im lauen Garten,
Leuchtkugeln blühen in weichen, zarten
Bogen empor. Meine Tänzerin lacht.
Heimlich schleich' ich davon. Die Zweige
Blühender Träume dämmern blaß.
Ach, alle Lust geht so bald zur Neige,
Nur das Verlangen brennt ohne Unterlaß.
Wunderherrliche Sommernachtfeste
Meiner Jugend, wo seid ihr hin?
Alle Tänze, ob ich auch fröhlich bin,
Gleiten so kühl, es fehlt das Beste.
O dunkelglühende Sommernacht,
Laß mich doch einmal den träumeschweren
Becher der Lust bis zum Grunde leeren,
Der mich sättigt und endlich stille macht!
Translation(s): ENG
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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, pages 185-186.
Submitted by Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] and Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable): - ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Summer night", subtitle: "(April 1909)", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Summer night
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Oh darkly-glowing summer night!
Violins sound beguilingly in the warm garden,
Lampions bloom aloft in a soft, delicate
Arch. My dancing partner laughs.
Secretly I steal away. The branches
Of blossoming dreams grow pale in the twilight.
Ah, all joy wanes so very quickly,
Only yearning burns without ceasing.
Wondrously glorious summer-night celebrations
Of my youth, where have you gone?
All dances, though I may be merry,
Glide so coolly; the best is missing.
Oh darkly-glowing summer night!
Let me for once drain the dream-laden
Goblet of passion to the last drop,
[The goblet] that would satisfy and finally quieten me!
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Subtitle: "(April 1909)"
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Based on- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Sommernacht", subtitle: "(April 1909)", written 1909, appears in Unterwegs, first published 1911
- This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Heinz-Otto Hoffmann. Go to the text.
Text added to the website: 2019-05-01 00:00:00.
Last modified: 2019-05-01 09:56:45
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