by Arno Hermann Oscar Alfred Holz (1863 - 1929)
Die Sonne sank
Language: German (Deutsch)
Die Sonne sank. Ich wartete. Wie lange ... Unsichtbar, wie ersticktes Weinen, klang unter den Weiden der Fluss. Durchs Dunkel, neben mir, taste ich nach den roten Blumen. Sie sind welk. Du hast mich vergessen!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Phantasus, von Arno Holz, Zweites Heft, Sassenbach, Berlin, 1899, page 10.
Text Authorship:
- by Arno Hermann Oscar Alfred Holz (1863 - 1929), no title, appears in Phantasus, Heft 2 [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 Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Vergessen", 1911, published 1912 [ medium voice, piano ], in Lieder und Gesänge, III. Folge, Nr.5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Vergessen" [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Chris D. Godwin) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le soleil s'est couché", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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