Oh night | Oh night, you fount of stars

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by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

O Nacht, du Sternenbronnen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

O Nacht, du Sternenbronnen,
ich bade Leib und Geist
in deinen tausend Sonnen--

O Nacht, die mich umfleußt
mit Offenbarungswonnen,
ergib mir, was du weißt!

O Nacht, du tiefer Bronnen ...

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Christian Morgenstern, Wir fanden einen Pfad. Gedichte, München: R. Piper & Co Verlag, 1966, page 13

Text Authorship:

by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), "O Nacht...", appears in Wir fanden einen Pfad [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 Marius Flothuis (1914 - 2001), "O Nacht", op. 3 (Vier liederen) no. 3 (1938), orchestrated 1939 [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Hermann Franz Graener (1872 - 1944), "O Nacht, du tiefer Bronnen", op. 50 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "O Nacht", op. 59 (Sechs Lieder nach Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern) no. 2 (1928), published 1934 [sung text not yet checked]
by Mathilde von Kralik (1857 - 1944), "O Nacht", 1929 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernest Vietor (flourished 1905-1930), "O Nacht", op. 11 no. 14 (1933-4) [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri Zagwijn (1878 - 1954), "O Nacht", 1918 [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Oh night", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Ô nuit", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2004-11-24
Line count: 7
Word count: 30

Oh night

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Oh night, you fount of stars,
Body and mind lave
In your thousand suns --

Oh night, that floods around me
With bliss of revelation,
Reveal to me, what you know!

Oh night, you deep fount ...

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2004 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.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), "O Nacht...", appears in Wir fanden einen Pfad
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This text was added to the website: 2004-11-28
Line count: 7
Word count: 35