by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Sleeping
Language: English 
Our translations:  GER ITA
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, --
An independent one.

Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?

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  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Schlafen", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Un lungo, lungo sonno", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website: 2007-05-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 45

Schlafen
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English 
Ein langer Schlaf, der allbekannt,
ein Schlaf, den morgens kein
sich recken mehr, kein Blinzeln bannt?
Ein Schlaf, der ganz allein

dem Nichtstun frommt, der steten Ruh’?
In einem Haus aus Stein
sich wärmen, sonnen immerzu
und nie mehr achtsam sein?

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This text was added to the website: 2018-11-20
Line count: 8
Word count: 41