In a pale yellow dress

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Im blassgelben Kleidchen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Im blassgelben Kleidchen,
Die Rose im Haar --
Sie sagten's mir Alle,
Wie lieblich ich war.

Und Einer von Allen,
Der sagte es nicht,
Er sah mir nur groß
Ins junge Gesicht.

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Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Gedichte, Neunte Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 6.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 1. Das Ringlein sprang entzwei, in 3. Der erste Ball, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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In a pale yellow dress

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

In a pale yellow dress, 
A rose in my hair –
Everyone said to me
How lovely I was.

And one among them all,
He did not say it,
He only gazed into my
Young face with wide-open eyes.

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Translations of title(s):
"Im blassgelben Kleidchen, die Rose im Haar" = "In a pale yellow dress, a rose in my hair"
"Im weissen Kleidchen die Rose im Haar" = "In a white dress, a rose in my hair"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 1. Das Ringlein sprang entzwei, in 3. Der erste Ball, no. 1
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