Du bist so fremd, du bist so bleich.
Nur manchmal glüht auf deinen Wangen
ein hoffnungsloses Heimverlangen
nach dem verlornen Rosenreich.

Dann sehnt dein Auge, tief und klar,
aus [allem]1 Müssen, [allem]1 Mühen
ins Land, wo nichts als stilles Blühen
die Arbeit deiner Hände war.

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Erste Gedichte, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923

¹ Móry: "allen"

Text Authorship:

• by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Advent, in Funde, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Du bist so fremd", op. 56 no. 14 [ voice and piano ], from 27 Lieder zu Gedichte von R. M. Rilke, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Raoul Koczalski (1884 - 1948), "Du bist so fremd", op. 116 no. 3, published 1936 [ voice, piano ], from 4 Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 3, Köln : Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text not yet checked]
• by Heinrich Konietzny (1910 - 1983), "Du bist so fremd" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ján Móry (1892 - 1978), "Albumblatt", op. 15 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Verlag von Ries & Erler [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "You are so different", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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