Lament | In these wilted days

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Klage

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

  In diesen welken Tagen,
wo Alles bald zu Ende ist,
sturmzerfetzte Sonnenblumen
  über dunkle Zäune ragen,

     Wolken jagen
und den Boden flammenfarbne
   Blätterstürze schlagen:

da müssen wir nun tragen,
was wir uns mußten sagen

  in diesen welken Tagen.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Móry

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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt, Berlin: Verlag von Schuster u. Loeffler, 1896, page 47.

Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Klage", appears in Weib und Welt [author's text checked 2 times 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 Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979), "Klage", 1904?, note: this may be the incorrect text for this title - needs verification [sung text not yet checked]
by Ján Móry (1892 - 1978), "Klage", op. 15 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5 (1929) [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Verlag von Ries & Erler [sung text checked 1 time]
by Marie Cornélie Cathérine Reynvaan (1854 - 1934), "Klage", 1916 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Dehmel Lieder, no. 18386, Amsterdam : Alsbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Klage", 1904 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Lament", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Plainte", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-10-07
Line count: 10
Word count: 38

Lament

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

  In these wilted days,
when everything is soon at an end,
when sunflowers, tattered by storms
  loom over dark fences,

     clouds race
and the ground is being beaten
   by flame-coloured leaf falls:

thus we now must bear
that which we had to say to each other

  in these wilted days.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Klage", appears in Weib und Welt
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This text was added to the website: 2024-11-30
Line count: 10
Word count: 50