This is my strife [ ... ]
Three Rilke songs
Song Cycle by Robert Erickson (b. 1917)
1. This is my strife  [sung text not yet checked]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Advent, in Gaben. An verschiedene Freunde, no. 1
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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 Margaret Dows Herter Norton, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1993, p.18
2. Thou my sacred solitude  [sung text not yet checked]
Thou my sacred solitude [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Advent, in Gaben. An verschiedene Freunde, no. 2
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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 Margaret Dows Herter Norton, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1993, p.21
3. You come too  [sung text not yet checked]
Do you know, I would quietly [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Weisst du, ich will mich schleichen", appears in Advent, in Funde, no. 6
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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 Margaret Dows Herter Norton, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1993, p.29