La rosa no buscaba la aurora: casi eterna en su ramo, buscaba otra cosa. La rosa, no buscaba ni ciencia ni sombra: confín de carne y sueño, buscaba otra cosa. La rosa, no buscaba la rosa. Inmóvil por el cielo buscaba otra cosa.
Rosa, rosae
Song Cycle by Jacqueline Fontyn (b. 1930)
1. Una rosa [sung text not yet checked]
Language: Spanish (Español)
Text Authorship:
- by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Casida de la rosa", appears in Divan del Tamarit, in Casidas, no. 7, first published 1936
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
2. Les roses [sung text not yet checked]
Language: French (Français)
Je te vois, rose, livre entrebâillé, qui contient tant de pages de bonheur détaillé qu'on ne lira jamais. Livre-mage, qui s'ouvre au vent et qui peut être lu les yeux fermés..., dont les papillons sortent confus d'avoir eu les mêmes idées.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 3. Les Roses, no. 2, first published 1927
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Language: German (Deutsch)
Im [Frühlingsschatten]1 fand ich Sie; Da band ich Sie mit Rosenbändern: Sie fühlt' es nicht und schlummerte. Ich sah Sie an; mein Leben hing Mit diesem Blick' an ihrem Leben: Ich fühlt' es wohl, und wußt' es nicht. Doch lispelt' ich Ihr [sprachlos]2 zu, Und rauschte mit den Rosenbändern: Da wachte Sie vom Schlummer auf. Sie sah mich an; Ihr Leben hing Mit diesem Blick' an meinem Leben, Und um uns [ward's]3 Elysium.
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803), title 1: "Das Rosenband", title 2: "Das schlafende Mädchen", title 3: "Cidli", title 4: "Das schlafende Mägdchen", written 1753, first published 1762
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La cinta rosa", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "De rozenband", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "The Rose Chain", first published 1911
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le ruban rose", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Hamutal Atariah) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Il laccio di rose", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "La guirnalda de rosas", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Klopstocks Oden. Erster Band. Leipzig bey Georg Joachim Göschen. 1798, page 123, in which the poem is titled "Das Rosenband". First published in Lieder mit Melodien, für das Clavier, von Christian Ernst Rosenbaum. Zweeter Theil. Altona und Lübeck, Bey David Iversen, Königl. privil. Buchhändler aufs Herzogth. Holstein; 1762, page 6, with the title "Das schlafende Mägdchen"; then in Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1770. Göttingen bey Johann Christian Dieterich, page 68, with the title "Das schlafende Mädchen"; and in Poetische Blumenlese auf das Jahr 1774. Göttingen und Gotha, bey Johann Christian Dieterich, page 117, with the title "Cidli".
1 Schubert, Zemlinsky: "Frühlingsgarten"2 Schubert: "leise"
3 Schubert, Tomášek: "ward"
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4. The sick rose [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), "The sick rose", appears in Songs of Innocence and Experience, in Songs of Experience, no. 9, first published 1794
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La rosa malalta", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Jean-Pierre Granger) , "La rose malade", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Die erkrankte Rose", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Die kranke Rose", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NYN Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Are Frode Søholt) , "Elegi", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) [singable] (Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov) , "Больная роза", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Pablo Sabat) , "Elegía"
5. La rosa
Language: Italian (Italiano)
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Text Authorship:
- by Lino Curci (1912 - 1975), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.6. Sommerbild [sung text not yet checked]
Language: German (Deutsch)
Ich sah des Sommers letzte Rose [stehn]1, Sie war, als ob sie bluten könne, rot; Da sprach ich [schauernd]2 im Vorübergehn: So weit im Leben, ist zu nah am Tod! Es regte sich kein Hauch am heißen Tag, Nur leise strich ein weisser Schmetterling; Doch ob auch kaum die Luft sein Flügelschlag Bewegte, sie empfand es und verging.
Text Authorship:
- by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863), "Sommerbild", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Vermischte Gedichte
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Summer image", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Image d'été", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich Hebbel. Gesammt-Ausgabe stark vermehrt und verbessert, Stuttgart und Augsburg, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1857, page 163.
1 Hindemith: "blühn"2 Hindemith: "schaudernd"
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Total word count: 250