There rose a tree. O pure transcendency! [ ... ]
Four Rilke Sonnets
Song Cycle by Robert Cogan (1930 - 2021)
1. There rose a tree  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, 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.2. A god can do it  [sung text not yet checked]
A god can do it. But will you tell me how [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), no title, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 3
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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, The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus; A Dual Language Edition, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014, p.78
3. Erect no tombstone
Erect no tombstone . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 5
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4. And almost a girl it was and came forth  [sung text not yet checked]
And almost a girl it was and came forth [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Edward Snow , no title, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, 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 Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poetry of Rilke, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014