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Vier Chöre auf Gedichte von Emily Dickinson
Translations © by Bertram Kottmann
Song Cycle by Gitta Steiner (1932 - 1990)
View original-language texts alone: 4 Choruses of Emily Dickinson
I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come, Nor action new, Except through this extent, The realm of you.
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891
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Ich hab’ dies Leben nur zu führen hier; auch keinen Tod, denn den, verbannt von hier; Kein Band an dies, was kommt, noch neues Tun, es sei, in deinem Geist und Herz zu ruhn.
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Our share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning. Here a star, and there a star, Some lose their way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards - day!
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
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Mit an der Nacht zu tragen, und mit am Morgen. Was uns fehlt an Glück und Spott, besorgen. Hier ein Stern und ein Stern dort, mancher verirrt sich. Hier ein Nebel, einer dort, dann regt der Tag sich!
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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]1, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell [your]2 name the livelong [day]3 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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View original text (without footnotes)1 Bacon, G. Coates: "advertise"
2 Bacon, G. Coates: "one's"
3 Bacon, G. Coates: "June"
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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Summer for thee grant I may be When summer days are flown! Thy music still when whippoorwill And oriole are done! For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb And [sow]1 my blossoms o'er! Pray gather me, Anemone, Thy flower forevermore!
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000 http://www.bartleby.com/113/3040.html
1 in the Franklin edition, "row"
Sommer für dich, gerne wär’s ich, wenn Sommers Zeit ist um! Musik dir noch, sind jetzt doch Schwalb’ und Pirol verstummt! Dir Blüte sein, meid’ Grab und Stein, streu meine Verse weit! Pflück mich geschwind, Röslein im Wind, das blühet dir, allzeit!
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Based on:
- a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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Line count: 8
Word count: 42