Gossamer threads | Summer is frolicking about the house!

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Sommerfäden

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Der Sommer tollt ums Haus!
Er hascht sich mit dem Winde,
Der zupft dem schönen Kinde
Manch goldnes Härchen aus.

In hocherhobner Hand
Läßt er die Beute wehen --
Ich kann sie blitzen sehen,
Bald hier, bald dort im Land.

Ein Märlein fällt mir ein . .
Ach, daß die goldnen Schlingen
Mir meinen Liebsten fingen --
Wie wollt' ich selig sein!

Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, Fünfte Auflage, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 92.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Sommerfäden", appears in Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, in 4. Fremdes Leben, no. 14 [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 Max Höhne ( flourished c1900 ), "Sommerfäden", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Gesänge, no. 7, Leipzig: Edmund Stoll [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Gossamer threads", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2023-10-12
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Word count: 60

Gossamer threads

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Summer is frolicking about the house!
Playing tag with the wind;
From the lovely child [the wind] 
Plucks many a golden hair.

In its raised hand 
It lets the spoils blow --
I can see them sparkling,
Now here, now there in the land.

I am reminded of a fairy-tale . .
Ah, that the golden snares
Would catch my dearest one --
How blissfully happy I would be!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Sommerfäden", appears in Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, in 4. Fremdes Leben, no. 14
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This text was added to the website: 2024-01-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 67