Verzückung ist der sanfte Sturm

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Exhilaration is the Breeze

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER ITA

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Exhilaration is the Breeze
That lifts us from the Ground,
And leaves us in another place
Whose statement is not found --

Returns us not, but after time
We soberly descend
A little newer for the term
Upon Enchanted Ground --

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• C. Culpo

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in The Single Hound, first published 1914 [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 Christopher Culpo (b. 1960), no title, from Emilygrams, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gregg Kallor (b. 1978), "Exhilaration is the Breeze", 2006, first performed 2007 [ voice and piano ], from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923 - 2006), "Exhilaration is the breeze", published 1963 [ SSAA chorus and piano or chamber orchestra ], from An Emily Dickinson Mosaic [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "L'entusiasmo è come una brezza", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 39

Verzückung ist der sanfte Sturm

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

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Verzückung ist der sanfte Sturm,
der uns enthebt der Welt
und uns an einem Ort sein lässt,
dessen Begründung fehlt,

uns nicht rückführt, doch anschließend
man illusionslos fällt
wohl neuer, frischer im Moment
in die verwunsch’ne Welt.

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in The Single Hound, first published 1914
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 37