Onslaught | O be not angry, when my desire

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Elisabeth Siekhaus

Ansturm

(Sung text for setting by A. Zemlinsky)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE SPA

O zürne nicht, wenn mein Begehren
Brausend aus seinen Grenzen bricht,
Soll es uns selber nicht verzehren,
Muß es heraus ans Licht!

Fühlst ja, wie all mein Innres brandet,
Und wenn herauf der Aufruhr bricht,
Jäh über deinen Frieden strandet,
Dann bebst du aber du zürnst mir nicht.

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Alexander Zemlinsky

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Ansturm"

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ENG English (Elisabeth Siekhaus) , "Onslaught", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Assaut", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Martin Zubiria) , "Embate", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Onslaught

(Sung text translation for setting by A. Zemlinsky)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

O be not angry, when my desire
Thunderously breaks through its boundaries,
If it is not to consume us,
It has to come out to the light!

You clearly can feel how I churn inside,
And when my rapture breaks to the surface,
Abruptly inundates your peace,
Then you tremble but are not angry with me.

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