by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985)
Reiten, reiten, reiten
Language: German (Deutsch)
Reiten, reiten, reiten,
durch den Tag, durch die Nacht, durch den Tag.
Reiten, reiten, reiten.
Und der Mut ist so müde geworden
und die Sehnsucht so groß. Es gibt keine Berge mehr,
kaum einen Baum. Nichts wagt aufzustehen.
Fremde Hütten hocken durstig an versumpften Brunnen.
Nirgends ein Turm. Und immer das gleiche Bild.
Man hat zwei Augen zuviel. [Nur in der Nacht
manchmal glaubt man den Weg zu kennen.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Werke. Kommentiere Ausgabe in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Manfred Engel, Ulrich Fülleborn, Horst Nalewski, August Stahl, Band I Gedichte 1895 bis 1910, herausgegeben von Manfred Engel und Ulrich Fülleborn, Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1996, page 141.
1 omitted by ReutterText Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 1, first published 1906
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , "Riding", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Chevaucher, chevaucher, chevaucher, le jour", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 18
Word count: 136
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Riding, riding, riding [ ... ]
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Composition:
- Set to music by Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968), "Riding", first performed 2006, lines 1-10 [ baritone and piano ], from The Lay of the Love and Death, no. 1
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 1, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 1, first published 1906
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