Oh night, you silvery pale | Oh night, you silvery, pale

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

O Nacht, du silberbleiche

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

O Nacht, du silberbleiche,
Verlorene Träumerin,
In deine fremden Reiche
Nimm meine Seele hin!
Schiffbrüchig aus des Tages Not
Leg ich vertraut mein scheues Boot
Ausruhend von erregter Flucht
An deiner Stille heimatliche Bucht.

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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 495.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "O Nacht, du silberbleiche", written 1901 [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 Woldemar Sacks , "O Nacht, du silberbleiche", op. 29 no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "O Nacht, du silberbleiche", op. 10 (Fünf Lieder für eine tiefere Frauenstimme) no. 5 (1906-7), published c1920 [ alto or mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Oh night, you silvery pale", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Ô nuit, à la pâleur argentée", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-17
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Word count: 34

Oh night, you silvery pale

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Oh night, you silvery, pale,
Lost dreamer,
Into your foreign kingdoms
Take my soul!
Shipwrecked from the sorrow of the day,
Resting from the impassioned flight,
Trustingly I moor my shy boat
In the home port of your stillness.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2014 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "O Nacht, du silberbleiche", written 1901
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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 39