Für die Gabe eines Krumens gibt die Amsel

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

The Robin for the Crumb

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

The Robin for the Crumb
Returns no syllable
But long records the Lady’s name
In Silver Chronicle.

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Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 2, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 810 (Version B).

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [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 Julian Philips (b. 1969), "The robin", 1997/2002, published 2007 [high voice and piano], from the collection An Amherst Bestiary, no. 3, Peters Edition [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , from Kinder-Lieder, in 2. Lieder und Bilder aus der Natur, copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Für die Gabe eines Krumens gibt die...

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Für die Gabe eines Krumens gibt die Amsel¹
Keine Sylbe von sich,
Aber sie schreibt den Namen der Geberin
Lange in eine silberne Chronik.

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Translation of title "The robin" = "Die Amsel"
¹ "Rotkehlchen" wäre zwar richtig für "Robin", wenn es sich hier um einen „English Robin" ( Erithacus rubecula) handeln würde. Emily Dickinson war aber Amerikanerin, und sie hatte den „American Robin" (Turdus migratorius) im Sinn. Dieser Vogel ist eher mit einer Amsel (Turdus merula) verwandt. Beide haben die gleiche Größe und einen ähnlichen Gesang, nur dass der amerikanische Robin eine rote Brust hat.

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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