Wedding morning | Carried through the night by a wave

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by Otto Wiener (b. 1909)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Hochzeitsmorgen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Auf einer Woge durch die Nacht getragen
In einem Meere des Begehrens
Erwacht der Morgen blaß und fahl.
Nie sollst du um die Träume fragen,
Um all' die Trauer des Verwehrens,
Du Liebster, die noch einmal
Sich qualenvoll in meine Sinne stahl!

Ich habe nur dies Eine zu vergeben,
Den Glanz aus meinen Mädchentagen,
Der sich dem Meere blind vertraut.
Mein ganzes Lieben und mein Leben,
Als reine Flut soll es verschäumen,
Im Traume nur und volle Scham geschaut,
Soll wirklich es nun sein und brennen laut.

Text Authorship:

by Otto Wiener (b. 1909) [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 Konrad Rötscher (1910 - 1979), "Hochzeitsmorgen", op. 17 no. 2, published 1951 [voice and piano], from Lieder der Braut, no. 2, Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin-Wiesbaden [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Wedding morning", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-10-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 87

Wedding morning

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Carried through the night by a wave
In a sea of desire
The morning awakes, pale and wan.
You must never ask about my dreams,
About all the mourning of denial,
You my beloved, that one last time
Agonizingly stole into my spirit!

I have only this one thing to offer
The radiance from the days of my maidenhood
That blindly entrusts itself to the sea.
My whole loving and my life
Shall foam away as a pure flood;
Seen only in a dream and filled with shame,
It shall truly now exist and flame loudly.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Otto Wiener (b. 1909)
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This text was added to the website: 2019-04-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 96