by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Du bist so fremd, du bist so bleich
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG
Du bist so fremd, du bist so bleich. Nur manchmal glüht auf deinen Wangen ein hoffnungsloses Heimverlangen nach dem verlornen Rosenreich. Dann sehnt dein Auge, tief und klar, aus allem Müssen, allem Mühen ins Land, wo nichts als stilles Blühen die Arbeit deiner Hände war.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Erste Gedichte, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Advent, in Funde, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Du bist so fremd", op. 56 no. 14 [ voice and piano ], from 27 Lieder zu Gedichte von R. M. Rilke, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Koczalski (1884 - 1948), "Du bist so fremd", op. 116 no. 3, published 1936 [ voice, piano ], from 4 Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 3, Köln : Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Konietzny (1910 - 1983), "Du bist so fremd" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ján Móry (1892 - 1978), "Albumblatt", op. 15 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Verlag von Ries & Erler [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "You are so different", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2023-07-10
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