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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Lobgesang
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Wie das Meer
ist die Liebe:
unerschöpflich,
unergründlich,
unermeßlich:
Woge zu Woge
stürzend gehoben,
Woge [in]1 Woge
wachsend verschlungen,
sturm-und-wetter-[geberdig]2 nun,
sonneselig nun,
willig nun dem Mond
die unaufhaltsame Fläche —
doch in der Tiefe
stetes [Walten ewiger]3 Ruhe,
ungestört,
[undurchdringbar]4 dem irdischen Blick,
starr verdämmernd in gläsernes Dunkel —
und in der Weite
stetes [Wirken]5 ewiger Regung,
ungestillt,
[unentwirrbar]6 dem irdischen Blick,
[wild]7 verschwimmend im Licht der Lüfte:
[Aufrausch]8 der Unendlichkeit
ist das Meer,
ist die Liebe.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Mahler •   V. Novák 

View original text (without footnotes)

Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Gesammelte Werke in drei Bänden, Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1913, pages 71-72.

1 Mahler: "von"
2 Mahler: "gewaltig"
3 Mahler: "wirken ewige"
4 Mahler: "unentwirrbar"
5 Mahler, Novák: "Schweben"
6 Mahler: "unabsehbar"
7 Mahler: "mild"
8 Mahler, Novák: "Aufklang"

Text Authorship:

  • by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Lobgesang" [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 Alma Mahler (1879 - 1964), "Lobgesang", published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Gesänge, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (1870 - 1949), "Lobgesang", op. 46 no. 1, published 1912, from Erotikon, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Michael P. Rosewall) , "Song of praise", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant de louange", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 26
Word count: 86

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