Something flutters across your face | Something flutters across your face

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by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Es rieselt etwas über dein Gesicht

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Es rieselt etwas über dein Gesicht,
Vielleicht, du süße Knospe Gottes bricht
Aus dir für einen Menschen bald der Blume Licht.
Verborgner Flügel seiner Flor
Regt unter Decken sich hervor.
Und Perlen seh ich, die von ihren Schnüren
Zu rollen sich schon heimlich rühren.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Lieder an ein Mädchen, München: Albert Langen, [1912], page 47.

Text Authorship:

by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951), no title, appears in Lieder an ein Mädchen [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 Margarete Schweikert (1887 - 1957), "Es rieselt etwas über dein Gesicht", op. 15 no. 3 (1922) [ tenor and piano ], from Lieder an ein Mädchen nach Gedichten von Hans Heinrich Ehrler, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Something flutters across your face", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2022-09-19
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Word count: 44

Something flutters across your face

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Something flutters across your face,
Perhaps, you sweet blossom of God, from you
There shall soon break forth, for some person, the light of the flower.
The concealed wing of its blooming
Moves out from under its covering.
And I see pearls that from their strings
Are already stirring secretly and preparing to roll.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951), no title, appears in Lieder an ein Mädchen
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This text was added to the website: 2022-10-05
Line count: 7
Word count: 54