Meiner Mutter | Dir, liebe Mutter, dies Gedicht

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by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

To my mother

Language: English

Our translations: GER ITA

You too, my mother, read my rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
The little feet along the floor.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "To my mother", appears in Underwoods [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "A mia madre", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Meiner Mutter", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2007-01-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 26

Meiner Mutter

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Dir, liebe Mutter, dies Gedicht:
Vergiss vergangner Zeiten nicht, -
und hör vielleicht aus ihm heraus
aufs Neu der Füßchen Schritt im Haus.

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 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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a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "To my mother", appears in Underwoods
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This text was added to the website: 2016-10-23
Line count: 4
Word count: 22