Rosa porpra | Per a tu havia tocat una cançó

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Purpurrose

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE

Ich hatte dir ein Lied gespielt.
Du schwiegest. Deine Rechte hielt
Mit lassen Fingern eine große,
Blutrote, reife Purpurrose.

Und über uns mit fremder Pracht
Stieg auf die milde Sommernacht,
In wunderbarem Glanz erschlossen,
Die erste Nacht, die wir genossen.

Stieg auf und bog den dunklen Arm
Um uns, und war so laß und warm.
Du streiftest still von deinem Schoße
Die Blätter einer Purpurrose.

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 59.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Purpurrose", written 1899, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Buch der Liebe, first published 1919 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Oskar Baumann , "Purpurrose", op. 308 (Hermann Hesse-Lieder, 2. Folge) no. 1 (1947) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Friedrich Scholz (b. 1926), "Purpurrose" [ voice and piano ], from Acht Liedvertonungen nach Gedichten von Rose Ausländer, Mascha Kaléko und Herrmann Hesse, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Rosa porpra", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Crimson rose", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Rose pourpre", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-04-29
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Word count: 65

Rosa porpra

Language: Catalan (Català) after the German (Deutsch)

Per a tu havia tocat una cançó,
tu callares. La teva mà dreta
tenia en els seus dits lassos una gran rosa,
vermella, desclosa, color de porpra.

I damunt nostre, amb una estranya esplendor,
s’enlairava la dolça nit d’estiu,
manifestant-se en un meravellós esclat,
la primera nit que havíem gaudit.

S’aixecà i vinclà el seu fosc braç
al nostre entorn, i era tan las i càlid.
En silenci, tu et treies de la teva falda
els pètals d’una rosa porpra.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Purpurrose", written 1899, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Buch der Liebe, first published 1919
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This text was added to the website: 2025-11-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 80