If only for once it were still [ ... ]
Three Rilke Songs
Song Cycle by Craig Brandwein (b. 1959)
1. If only for once [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Anita Barrows , no title, copyright ©
- by Joanna Macy , no title, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Wenn es nur einmal so ganz stille wäre", written 1899, appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 1. Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben , no. 7, first published 1905
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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.Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours; Love Poems to God, New York : Riverhead books, 2005
2. I beg you to have patience [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
About ten days ago I left Paris, tired and quite sick [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), as Margaret Dows Herter, no title, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
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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.3. God speaks to us [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
God speaks to each of us as he makes us [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Anita Barrows , no title, copyright ©
- by Joanna Macy , no title, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 1. Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben , no. 59
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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.Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, New York : Riverhead books, 2005
Total word count: 1938