Remembrance, buried hope

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by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Erinnerung, begrabene Hoffnung

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Erinnerung, begrabene Hoffnung
Bewahrt dies braune Gebälk
Darüber Georginen hangen,
Immer stillere Heimkehr,
Der verfallne Garten dunklen Abglanz
Kindlicher Jahre,
Daß von blauen Lidern Tränen stürzen
Unaufhaltsam;
Hinüberschimmern der Schwermut
Kristallne Minuten
Zur Nacht.

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Text Authorship:

by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Herbstliche Heimkehr" [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 Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Herbstliche Heimkehr (1. Fassung)", 1996, first performed 1996 [ tenor and piano ], from Trakl-Lieder II : Schweigen und Kindheit, no. 4, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
by Steffen Schleiermacher (b. 1960), "Herbstliche Heimkehr", 1984/5 [ chorus a cappella ], from Vier Chöre nach Gedichten von Georg Trakl, no. 2, Deutscher Verlag für Musik [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Retour automnal", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-29
Line count: 11
Word count: 38

Remembrance, buried hope

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Remembrance, buried hope
is preserved by these brown beams
over which Dahlias trail.
Ever calmer homecoming,
the abandoned garden, dark reflection  
of childhood years,
that tears fall from blue lids
unstoppably;
melancholy’s crystal minutes
blink over
to the night.

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"Herbstliche Heimkehr (1. Fassung)" = "Autumnal homecoming (first version)"
"Herbstliche Heimkehr" = "Autumnal homecoming"

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Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2016 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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a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Herbstliche Heimkehr"
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This text was added to the website: 2016-06-26
Line count: 11
Word count: 40