Red roses | Do you know the rose that you gave to me?

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by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Rote Rosen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

Weisst du die Rose, die Du mir gegeben?
Der scheuen Veilchen stolze, heisse Schwester;
Von Deiner Brust trug noch ihr Duft das Leben,
Und an dem Duft sog ich fest mich und fester.

Ich seh Dich vor mir, Stirn und Schläfe glühend,
Den Nacken trotzig, weich und weiss die Hände,
Im Aug noch Lenz, doch die Gestalt erblühend voll,
Wie das Feld blüht um Sonnenwende.

Um mich webt Nacht, die kühle, wolkenlose,
Doch Tag und Nacht, sie sind in eins zerronnen.
Es träumt mein Sinn von Deiner roten Rose
Und von dem Garten, drin ich sie gewonnen.

Text Authorship:

by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885) [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 Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Rote Rosen", WoO. 76 (1883) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Roses vermelles", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Rode rozen", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Red roses", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Rose rouge", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Alberto Pedrotti

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 97

Red roses

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Do you know the rose that you gave to me?
The proud, fervent sister of the shy violet;
From your breast her scent still carried life,
And to that scent I bound myself tightly and more tightly.

I see you before me, brow and temples glowing,
Your neck defiant, soft and white your hands,
In your eyes still springtime, but your form fully blossomed,
The way a field blooms at the summer solstice.

Around me night weaves, the cool, cloudless night,
But day and night have dissolved into a oneness.
My spirit dreams of your red rose
And of the garden in which I won it.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885)
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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 106