The copper beech | A young copper beech stood

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Die Blutbuche

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Eine junge Blutbuche stand
Ob meiner ersten Liebe,
Und als ich mein erstes Lied erfand,
Sah sie zu, was ich schriebe.

So wie die Blutbuche kann kein Baum
In Frühlingsprächten schwelgen,
Hat keiner so farbigen Sommertraum
Und so ein jähes Welken.

Eine junge Blutbuche steht
In allen meinen Träumen,
Ein vergangener Mai umweht
Meinen Liebling unter den Bäumen.

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 16.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Die Blutbuche", written 1897 [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 Victor Fenigstein (b. 1924), "Die Blutbuche", 1944 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder, no. 2, from Aus deiner Jugend, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Die Blutbuche ", op. 7 no. 2 [ high voice and piano ], from Zehn romantische Lieder für mittlere Stimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El faig purpuri", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The copper beech", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2014-06-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 58

The copper beech

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

A young copper beech stood
Over my first love,
And as I created my first poem,
It watched what I was writing.

No tree can revel like the copper beech
In the splendours of spring,
None has such a colourful summer dream
And such a precipitous wilting.

A young copper beech stands
In all my dreams,
A bygone May wafts about
My favourite among the trees.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Die Blutbuche", written 1897
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This text was added to the website: 2014-06-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 66