The lost cloudlet | A cloudlet wanders along the sky

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Das verirrte Wölkchen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Ein Wölkchen irrt am Himmel hin,
Verloren und verlassen,
Der Mond sucht's mit der Strahlenhand 
Am Kleidchen zu erfassen.

Das Wölkchen aber läuft und läuft,
Der Sinn ist ihm verwirret, 
Hat spielend sich vom rechten Weg 
Schon viel zu weit verirret. 

Nur wie ein Pünktchen seh' ich's noch 
Am Horizonte wallen,
Das Herz steht mir in Bangen still --
Mir ist, als säh' ich's fallen!

Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Gedichte, Einundzwanzigste Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1905, page 132.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Das verirrte Wölkchen", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Vermischte Gedichte, no. 40 [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 Gerardus Hubertus Galenus von Brucken Fock (1859 - 1935), "Das verirrte Wölkchen", op. 18 (14 Lieder für Sopran und Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Amsterdam: De Nieuwe Muziekhandel [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The lost cloudlet", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le petit nuage égaré", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Bertram Kottmann , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-05-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 64

The lost cloudlet

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

A cloudlet wanders along the sky,
Lost and forlorn,
With its beam-hand, the moon
Tries to grasp it by its garb.

But the cloudlet runs and runs,
Its mind is all confused,
In play it has strayed much too far
From the right path.

I see it now only as a little dot
Wandering along the horizon,
My heart stands still in anxiety --
It seems to me that I saw it falling!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Das verirrte Wölkchen", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Vermischte Gedichte, no. 40
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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 72