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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Walter A. Aue

Let my first knowing be of thee

Language: English

Our translations: GER GER

Let my first Knowing be of the thee
with morning's warming Light -
and my first Fearing, lest Unknowns
engulph thee in the night -

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), written c1878 [author's text not yet checked 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 Hugh Brunt , "Let my first knowing be of thee", 2006, from Three Dickinson Songs, no. 1. [
text not verified
]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Dass du im warmen Morgenlicht", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , title 1: "Mein erstes Fassen sei von Dir", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2007-09-21
Line count: 4
Word count: 23

Mein erstes Fassen sei von Dir

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Mein erstes Fassen sei von Dir,
wenn warm der Morgen lacht -
und erste Angst, dasz And'res nicht
umschlingt Dich in der Nacht -

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2008 by Walter A. Aue, (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 English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), written c1878
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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-01
Line count: 4
Word count: 22