There rose a tree. O pure transcendency! [ ... ]
Songs of Praise and Lamentation: Sonnets to Orpheus
Song Cycle by George Perle (1915 - 2009)
1. Sonnet #1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de Iongh, née Herter (1894 - 1985), appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- 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. Sonnet #9 [sung text checked 1 time]
Only one who has lifted the lyre [ ... ]
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- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de Iongh, née Herter (1894 - 1985), appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 9
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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. Sonnet #5 [sung text checked 1 time]
Set up no stone to his memory [ ... ]
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- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de Iongh, née Herter (1894 - 1985), appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- 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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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.4. Sonnet #19 [sung text checked 1 time]
Even though the world keeps changing [ ... ]
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- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de Iongh, née Herter (1894 - 1985), appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 19
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1 Diamond: "wider"
Total word count: 347