Eine Blume, meiner Tochter überreicht | Zart, die weiße Rose, und zart ist

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by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Frail the white rose and frail are

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

Frail the white rose and frail are
Her hands that gave
Whose soul is sere and paler
Than time's wan wave.

Rosefrail and fair-- yet frailest
A wonder wild
In gentle eyes thou veilest,
My blueveined child.

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First published in Poetry, May 1917

Text Authorship:

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), "A flower given to my daughter", written 1913, appears in Pomes Penyeach, no. 3 [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 Lorne M. Betts (b. 1918), "Frail the white rose and frail are", 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Five Songs (1952) [sung text not yet checked]
by David Del Tredici (1937 - 2023), "A flower given to my daughter", 1958-60, published 1974 [ voice and piano ], from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005), "A flower given to my daughter", published 1942 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Frail the white rose", 1930 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "A Flower Given to my Child", 1930 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "Rosefrail", R. 52 (1929), published 1931 [ medium voice and piano ], Augener [sung text checked 1 time]
by Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937), "A flower given to my daughter", 1931, published 1933, first performed 1932 [ high voice and piano ], from The Joyce Book, no. 3, note: sometimes published with the same opus number as "Deux idylles", op. 44 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ronald Stevenson (b. 1928), "A flower given to my daughter", 1971 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by William Strickland (b. 1914), "A flower given to my daughter", published 1961 [ medium-high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Italian (Italiano), adapted by Eugenio Montale (1896 - 1981) , copyright © ; composed by Luigi Dallapiccola.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Une fleur offerte à ma fille", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Eine Blume, meiner Tochter überreicht", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2005-01-13
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Word count: 37

Eine Blume, meiner Tochter überreicht

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Zart, die weiße Rose, und zart ist
die schenkende Hand,
deren Seele dorr ist und fahler
als der Zeit fahle Woge.

Rosenzart und schön - doch überzart,
ein Wunder wild,
das sich in deinem sanften Blick verhüllt,
mein durchscheinend’ Kind.

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2014 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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Based on:

a text in English by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), "A flower given to my daughter", written 1913, appears in Pomes Penyeach, no. 3
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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 39