Verbotner Früchte Reiz ist, was

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Forbidden fruit a flavor has

Language: English

Our translations: GER

Forbidden fruit a flavor has
   That lawful orchards mocks;
How luscious lies the pea within
   The pod that Duty locks!

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Confirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "Forbidden Fruit (1)", appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, in 1. Life, no. 4 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Forbidden fruit", 2009 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Elizabeth Coard , "Forbidden fruit", copyright © 1984 [ piano and mezzo-soprano ], from Emily Dickinson Song Cycle , no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-11-23
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Verbotner Früchte Reiz ist, was

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Verbotner Früchte Reiz ist, was
legale Gärten schmäht;
süße Erbschen sind pflichtschuldigst   
in Schoten eingenäht!

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Translation of title "Forbidden fruit" = "Verbotner Früchte"

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Based on:

a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), "Forbidden Fruit (1)", appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, in 1. Life, no. 4
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This text was added to the website: 2019-07-15
Line count: 4
Word count: 15