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Aus Emilys Garten. Liederzyklus von Jake Heggie
Translations © by Bertram Kottmann
Song Cycle by Jake Heggie (b. 1961)
View original-language texts alone: From Emily's Garden
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 --
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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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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Word count: 62
In lands I never saw -- they say Immortal Alps look down -- Whose Bonnets touch the firmament -- Whose Sandals touch the town -- Meek at whose everlasting feet A Myriad Daisy play -- Which, Sir, are you and which am I Upon an August day?
In Ländern, die ich nie besucht, schaut ew’ger Fels herab, des’ Hut das Firmament berührt, des’ Schuh rührt an die Stadt. Unzähl’ge Gänseblümchen spiel’n am ew’gen Bergfuß zag. - Welches sind Sie, Herr, welches ich an einem Sommertag?
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Translation of title "In lands I never saw" = "In Ländern, die ich nie besucht"This text was added to the website: 2020-01-28
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Word count: 37
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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Word count: 23
It makes no difference abroad -- The Seasons -- fit -- the same -- The Mornings blossom into Noons -- And split their Pods of Flame -- Wild flowers -- kindle in the Woods -- The Brooks slam -- all the Day -- No Black bird bates his Banjo -- For passing Calvary -- Auto da Fe -- and Judgment -- Are nothing to the Bee -- His separation from His Rose -- To Him -- sums Misery --
Natur nimmt ihren steten Lauf, die Jahreszeiten zieh’n, der Morgen blüht zum Mittag auf, lässt Flammenkapseln glüh’n. Wildblumen leuchten auf im Hain, der Wildbach tost allzeit, die Amsel stellt ihr Lied nicht ein, sieht sie der Menschen Leid. Autodafé und Endgericht - der Biene ist’s egal; dass sie auf ihre Ros verzicht’, wär ihr die ärgste Qual.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Translation of title "It makes no difference abroad" = "Natur nimmt ihren steten Lauf"This text was added to the website: 2020-01-28
Line count: 12
Word count: 56