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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Letzte Bitte
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  FRE
Lege deine Hand auf meine Augen,
bis mein Blut wie Meeresnächte dunkelt:
fern im Nachen lauscht der Tod.

Lege deine Hand auf meine Augen,
bis mein Blut wie Himmelsnächte funkelt:
silbern rauscht das schwarze Boot.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Zemlinsky 

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Confirmed with Erlösungen. Gedichte und Sprüche von Richard Dehmel. Zweite Ausgabe, durchweg verändert. Schuster & Loeffler. Berlin 1898, page 310.


Text Authorship:

  • by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Letzte Bitte", appears in Erlösungen. Gedichte und Sprüche [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 Conrad (Eduard Reinhold) Ansorge (1862 - 1930), "Letzte Bitte", op. 17 no. 5, published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Richard Dehmel, no. 5, Berlin, Deneke [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hermann Bischoff (1868 - 1936), "Letzte Bitte", op. 12 (Fünf Lieder für 1 tiefe Singstimme und Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1901 [ low voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernst Adolf Boehe (1880 - 1938), "Letzte Bitte", op. 1 no. 2 (1899), published 1900 [ bass, piano ], from Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 2, München, Schmid Nachf. [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Letzte Bitte", 1907, from Fünf lieder auf Texte von Richard Dehmel, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Dernière prière", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Donderwinkel , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2013-11-19
Line count: 6
Word count: 38

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