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Flüchtig wie auf hohen Matten Einer Wolke scheuer Schatten Rührte mich mit leisem Wehe Deiner Schönheit stille Nähe. Zwischen Traum und Traum zuweilen Will das Leben mich ereilen, Glänzt so gold und lockt so heiter, Und erlischt - ich träume weiter. Träume von den Augenblicken Des Erwachens - von Geschicken, Deren Schatten ob mir liefen, Während meine Augen schliefen.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 55.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Lulu", written 1899, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Buch der Liebe, first published 1919 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Horst Joachim Japtok , "Lulu" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Lulu", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Lulu", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Lulu", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2009-05-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 57
Fleetingly, as if on the lofty meadows Of the timid shadows of a cloud, The quiet nearness of your beauty Moved me with a gentle aching. Between dream and dream sometimes Life wishes to fall upon me, It glows so golden and entices so merrily, And expires -- I dream on. Dream of the moments Of awakening -- of fates Whose shadows passed over me While my eyes slept.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Lulu", written 1899, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Buch der Liebe, first published 1919
This text was added to the website: 2018-05-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 67