Erhebung | Gib mir nur die Hand

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Erhebung

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE NOR

Gib mir nur die Hand,
  nur den Finger, dann
seh ich diesen ganzen Erdkreis
  als mein Eigen an!

O wie blüht mein Land,
  sieh mich doch nur an,
daß ich mit dir über die Wolken
  in die Sonne kann!

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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt, Verlag von Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin, 1896, page 126. Spelling has been modernized ("Gib" was "Gieb").

Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Erhebung", appears in Weib und Welt [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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), as Emilie Maria von Bach, "Erhebung", 1917 [ soprano and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
by Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Erhebung", op. 12 (Vierzehn Lieder) no. 13 (1997-8) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Erhebung", op. 2 (4 Lieder) no. 3 (1899) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Erhebung", op. 8 (Sechs Gedichte von Richard Dehmel) no. 2, published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in English, a translation by Clifford Bax (1886 - 1962) ; composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir.
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Word count: 42