Alle Natur empfindet | Alle Natur empfindet: Wald, Bach und Feld

Attention! Some of this material is not in the public domain.

It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator.

To inquire about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at licenses@email.lieder.example.net

If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation.

Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material.

by John Clare (1793 - 1864)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

All nature has a feeling

Language: English

Our translations: GER

All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks
Are life eternal: and in silence they
Speak happiness beyond the reach of books;
There's nothing mortal in them; their decay
Is the green life of change; to pass away
And come again in blooms revivified.
Its birth was heaven, eternal it its stay,
And with the sun and moon shall still abide
Beneath their day and night and heaven wide.

Text Authorship:

by John Clare (1793 - 1864), "All nature has a feeling", written 1845 [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 Mantas Savickis (b. 1986), "All nature has a feeling", 2012 [ SSAATTBB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Alle Natur empfindet", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2021-05-13
Line count: 9
Word count: 69

Alle Natur empfindet

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Alle Natur empfindet: Wald, Bach und Feld,
sie währen ewig: äußern still zumal
ihr Glück jenseits gedruckter Worte Welt;
sie werden nie vergehen; ihr Verfall
ist grüne Wiederkehr; hinwegzugehn
und auferstehn in neuem Blütenkleid.
Himmelgeboren, ewig ihr Bestehn,
und mit der Sonne und dem Mond bereit
zu weilen über Zeit und Himmel weit.

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2021 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
If you wish to commission a new translation, please contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net

Based on:

a text in English by John Clare (1793 - 1864), "All nature has a feeling", written 1845
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2021-05-13
Line count: 9
Word count: 53