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Fünf Gedichte von Emily Dickinson
Translations © by Bertram Kottmann
Song Cycle by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990)
View original-language texts alone: Five Poems by Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring today -- This, and my heart beside -- This, and my heart, and all the fields -- And all the meadows wide -- Be sure you count -- should I forget Some one the sum could tell -- This, and my heart, and all the Bees Which in the Clover dwell.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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Nur dieses bringe ich heut mit - mein Herz noch im Geleit, dies, und mein Herz, die ganze Flur und all die Auen weit. Falls ich’s vergess’, du zählst gewiss, - dass einer kennt die Zahl, - dies, und mein Herz, die Bienen all, vom Klee bestellt zum Mahl.
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Translation of titles:
"It's all I have to bring" = "Nur dieses bringe ich mit"
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Line count: 8
Word count: 46
So bashful when I spied her, So pretty, so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets, Lest anybody find; So breathless till I passed her, So helpless when I turned And bore her, struggling, blushing, Her simple haunts beyond! For whom I robbed the dingle, For whom betrayed the dell, Many will doubtless ask me, But I shall never tell!
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
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So scheu, als ich sie wahrnahm, so schamvoll und so lind! Im Blattwerk so verborgen, damit sie niemand find’. Im Schock, als ich vorbeiging, hilflos, als ich kehrt’ um, sie wegtrug, zappelnd, schamrot, aus ihrem Lebensraum! Für wen ich stahl im Waldtal, für wen ich es verriet, wohl fragt man mich dies einmal -, doch ich teil’s niemand mit.
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Translation of title "So bashful" = "So scheu"This text was added to the website: 2020-01-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 59
Poor little heart! Did they forget thee? Then dinna care! Then dinna care! Proud little heart! Did they forsake thee? Be debonair! Be debonair! Frail little heart! I would not break thee: Could'st credit me? Could'st credit me? Gay little heart! Like morning glory Thou'll wilted be; thou'll wilted be!
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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Trauriges Herz! Vergaßen sie dich? Ärger dich nicht! Ärger dich nicht! Hoffärtig Herz! Verließen sie dich!? Hab Zuversicht! Hab Zuversicht! Fragiles Herz! Nie breche ich dich: Baust du auf mich? Baust du auf mich? Heiteres Herz! Wie Windengewächs welkst du dahin; welkst du dahin!
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Translation of title "Poor little heart!" = "Trauriges Herz!"This text was added to the website: 2018-06-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 44
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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Wiese braucht per se eine Biene und ’nen Klee, ’ne Biene, einen Klee, Tagtraums Idee. Alleinig diese macht sie wahr, wenn Bienen rar.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Translation of titles
"Clover" = "Klee"
"To make a prairie" = "Wiese braucht"
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Line count: 5
Word count: 23
And this of all my hopes, This, is the silent end. Bountiful colored, My Morning rose, Early and sere, its end. Never Bud from a Stem Stepped with so gay a Foot, Never a Worm so confident Bored at so brave a Root.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1929
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Von dem, was ich erhofft, ist dies das stumme End. Mein Tag brach an in bunter Pracht, ging früh und welk zu End. Nie wuchs aus einem Stamm ein Spross so froh hervor - nie hat ein Wurm so dreist und keck die Wurzeln angebohrt.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1929
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Translation of title "And this of all my hopes" = "Von dem, was ich erhofft"This text was added to the website: 2020-01-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 44