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Mit blassen Flatterwolken Soll dich in jeden Traum Mit dem wetterleuchtenden Wäldersaum Das Bild der Nacht verfolgen, Der fieberschwülen Spätsommernacht, Da wir mit fackelbeglänzten Verblätternden Rosen uns bekränzten, Da du so schwül und gell gelacht. Du sollst schlaflose Nächte lang Die harten Stundenschläge zählen Und dich in Ängsten fieberbang Zurück durch alle Nöte quälen, Die ich seit jener Nacht erlitt, Da ich auf Nimmerwiedersehen Vorbei an Park, Schloß und Alleen Auf schwarzem Roß ins Elend ritt.
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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 60.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Fluch", written 1900 [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 (Carl Theodor) Oskar Ulmer (1883 - 1966), "Fluch", op. 20 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], note: may be incorrect text for this setting. [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Maledicció", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Curse", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Malédiction", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 76
With pale fluttering clouds, With the forest edge illumined by summer lightning, May the image of that night Pursue you into every dream, That fever-humid late-summer night, When we wreathed ourselves with Shedding roses, shining in the torchlight, When you laughed so sensuously and shrilly. Through many sleepness nights May you count the harsh strokes of the hours And, in feverishly anxious fears, Torture yourself back through all the miseries That I have suffered since that night, When, never to see you again, I rode Past the park, castle, and tree-lined roads Into wretchedness upon a black steed.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Fluch", written 1900
This text was added to the website: 2018-05-21
Line count: 16
Word count: 98