Der Schmetterling | In verehrtem Staub der Schmetterling

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

The Butterfly in honored Dust

Language: English

Our translations: GER

The Butterfly in honored Dust
Assuredly will lie
But none will pass the Catacomb
So chastened as the Fly -

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Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 3, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 1305 (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 butterfly", 1997/2002, published 2007 [high voice and piano], from the collection An Amherst Bestiary, no. 17, Peters Edition [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , title 1: "Der Schmetterling", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-28
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Word count: 19

Der Schmetterling

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

In verehrtem Staub der Schmetterling
Sicherlich wird ruhen,
Aber keiner geht ein durch das Grabgewölbe
So gezüchtigt wie die Fliege -

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-28
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Word count: 20