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Täglich neuer: Lieder für Kiri
Translations © by Bertram Kottmann
Song Cycle by Jake Heggie (b. 1961)
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Silence is all we dread. There's Ransom in a Voice -- But Silence is Infinity. Himself have not a face.
Missachtung macht uns bang. Erlösung bringt das Wort - Doch setzt sich Schweigen ewig fort und hat selbst kein Gesicht.
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), written 1873
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I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us - don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891
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Bin ein Niemand! Wer bist du? Bist auch ein Niemand du? Dann sind zu zweit wir - sag’s niemand! Wir würden dann verbannt. Wie monoton, jemand zu sein - ein lauter Frosch gleichsam: Der stellt sich vor, tagaus, tagein Bewunderern im Schlamm!
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Fame is a bee. It has a song -- It has a sting -- Ah, too, it has a wing.
Ruhm gleicht der Biene: Hat einen Stachel - hat sein Klingen - kann auch flugs entschwinden.
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That I did always love I bring thee Proof That till I loved I never lived — Enough — That I shall love alway — I argue thee That love is life — And life hath Immortality — This — dost thou doubt — Sweet — Then have I Nothing to show But Calvary —
Dass ich hab stets geliebt, beweis ich dir; Dass, bis ich liebt’, wohl etwas fehlte mir. Dass ich stets lieben werd’, ich dir erzeig, dass Liebe Leben ist, und Leben birgt Unsterblichkeit. Zweifelst du’s an, Lieb? Dann hab ich zu zeigen nichts als Herzeleid.
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Some say goodnight — at night — I say goodnight by day — Good-bye — the Going utter me — Goodnight, I still reply — For parting, that is night, And presence, simply dawn — Itself, the purple on the height Denominated morn.
Man sagt ‚Gutnacht‘ - bei Nacht - ich sag ‚Gutnacht‘ bei Tag - ‚Adieu‘ sagt mir der Scheidende dennoch ‚Gutnacht‘ ich sag, - denn Nacht ist wie das Gehn. Bleiben ist Tags Beginn an sich, wie Purpur auf den Höhn weist auf den Morgen hin.
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- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), written 1863
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-15
Line count: 8
Word count: 41