Bläue über dir und Sonnenglut, Unter dir die ewig stille Flut, Auf dem schlanken, leichtbewegten Kiel Trägst du Saitenklang und Liebesspiel. Schwarz und ernst sind deine leichten Wände. Süß, solang das frohe Heute loht, Süß und seltsam ist der Traum vom Tod, Von der Jugend und der Liebe Ende. Meine jungen Jahre gleiten Unbekannten Zielen zu Durch beglänzte schöne Weiten, Schlanke Gondel, rasch und leicht wie du.
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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 130.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Gondel", written 1907, appears in Unterwegs, first published 1911 [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 Werner Bühler (1904 - 1968), "Gondel" [ high voice and piano ], from Lieder für eine höhere Singstimme nach Texten von Hermann Hesse, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Géza Frid (1904 - 1989), "Gondel", op. 83 no. 5 (1973), from Venedig, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Gondel", op. 46 no. 1, published 1967 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Heinrich Pestalozzi (1878 - 1940), "Gondel", op. 37 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 5 (1922), published <<1934 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Góndola", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Gondole", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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