Lankly sprawled over her bed

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by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Schmächtig hingestreckt im Bette

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE ITA

Schmächtig hingestreckt im Bette
Wacht sie auf voll süßem Bangen
Und sie sieht ihr schmutzig Bette
Ganz von goldnem Licht verhangen,

Die Reseden dort am Fenster
Und den bläulich hellen Himmel.
Manchmal trägt der Wind ans Fenster
Einer Glocke zag Gebimmel.

Schatten gleiten übers Kissen,
Langsam schlagt die Mittagsstunde
Und sie atmet schwer im Kissen
Und ihr Mund gleicht einer Wunde.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• P. Hindemith

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Text Authorship:

by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), no title, appears in Gedichte 1909 -1913 , in Die junge Magd, no. 5 [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 Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Schmächtig hingestreckt im Bette", op. 23 no. 2e (1922), first performed 1922 [ alto, flute, clarinet, and string quartet ], from Die junge Magd, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Languidamente distesa sopra il letto", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2007-02-01
Line count: 12
Word count: 61

Lankly sprawled over her bed

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Lankly sprawled over her bed 
She awakes full of sweet yearning
And she sees her sullied bed 
wholly veiled by golden light beams, 

mignonettes there at the window 
and the bluish, lucid heavens. 
Sometimes winds waft to the window 
timid tinkling of a church bell.

Shadows gliding o’er the pillow, 
gradually the chimes of midday
and she wheezes in the pillow 
and her mouth is like a lesion.

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Translation of title "Schmächtig hingestreckt im Bette" = "Lankly sprawled over her bed"

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), no title, appears in Gedichte 1909 -1913 , in Die junge Magd, no. 5
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This text was added to the website: 2016-12-18
Line count: 12
Word count: 68