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Vier Lieder nach Texten von Emily Dickinson
Translations © by Bertram Kottmann
Song Cycle by James Sclater
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Softened by Time’s consummate plush, How sleek the woe appears That threatened childhood’s citadel and undermined the years. Bisected now, by bleaker griefs, We envy the despair That devastated childhood’s realm, so easy to repair.
Besänftigt durch der Zeiten Trost, wie wirkt das Leid poliert, das einst hat Kindheits Burg bedroht und sie unterminiert. Zerschnitten heut von herberm Leid beneiden wir die Not, die uns zerstört das Kinderreich, war sie zu lindern doch.
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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Wiese braucht per se eine Biene und ’nen Klee, ’ne Biene, einen Klee, Tagtraums Idee. Alleinig diese macht sie wahr, wenn Bienen rar.
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Translation of titles
"Clover" = "Klee"
"To make a prairie" = "Wiese braucht"
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Here, where the Daisies fit my Head 'Tis easiest to lie And every Grass that plays outside Is sorry, some, for me. Where I am not afraid to go I may confide my Flower -- Who was not Enemy of Me Will gentle be, to Her. Nor separate, Herself and Me By Distances become -- A single Bloom we constitute Departed, or at Home --
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Note: daisies are associated with the grave; cf. http://www.edickinson.org/words/5254Hier, mit Maßlieblichen um das Haupt ruh’ ohne Sorge ich, und jedem Halm, der draußen spielt, tut’s etwas leid für mich. Wo ich nicht fürchte, hinzugehn, dem schick ich meine Blüt’ - wer mir nicht bös gesonnen war, sich sacht um sie bemüht. Niemals sind sie und ich getrennt, nie wirkt Distanz sich aus - wir blühn in einer Blüte fort anderwärts wie zuhaus.
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Translation of title "Here, where the Daisies fit my Head" = "Hier, mit Maßlieblichen um das Haupt"Note for Stanza 1, Line 1 : "Mit dem Gänseblümchen" = Maßliebchen wird auch der Tod assoziiert.
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Bee! I'm expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due -- The Frogs got Home last Week -- Are settled, and at work -- Birds, mostly back -- The Clover warm and thick -- You'll get my Letter by The Seventeenth; Reply Or better, be with me -- Yours, Fly.
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Bolts of Melody, first published 1945
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Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 2, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 983.
Biene! Ich erwarte dich! Seist fällig eigentlich, erzählte gestern ich einem, den du kennst. Seit letzter Woche sind die Frösche hier am Werk, die meisten Vögel auch, der Klee steht warm und dicht. Bis Siebzehnten erreicht mein Brief dich; schreib zurück; noch besser, du kommst gleich - Gruß, Fliege.
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Word count: 48