Remembrance | No rosy gleam shines the day to rest!

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by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Kein Rosenschimmer leuchtet dem Tag zur...

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA

Kein Rosenschimmer leuchtet dem Tag zur Ruh'!
Der Abendnebel schwillt am Gestad' empor,
Wo durch verdorrte Felsengräser
Sterbender Lüfte Gesäusel wandelt.

Nicht schwermuthsvoller [bebte]¹ des Herbstes Wehn
Durchs todte Gras am sinkenden Rasenmal,
Wo meines Jugendlieblings Asche
Unter [der trauernden Weide]² schlummert.

Ihm Thränen opfern werd' ich beim Blätterfall,
Ihm, wenn das Mailaub wieder den Hain umrauscht,
Bis mir, vom schönern Stern, die Erde
Freundlich im Reigen der Welten schimmert.

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich von Matthisson. Erster Theil. Tübingen, bei Cotta, 1811, page 290, and with Friedrich von Matthisson, Gedichte, fünfzehnte Auflage, Zurich: Orell, Füssli & Co., 1851, page 227.

First published in Der Neue Teutsche Merkur vom Jahre 1794. Herausgegeben von C. M. Wieland. Erster Band. Weimar 1794. 4. Stück. April 1794, page 318.

Note: Matthisson changed the title into Todtenopfer in the 1811 and subsequent editions.

¹ Schubert (Neue Gesamtausgabe): "tönte"
² Schubert: "den trauernden Weiden"

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831), "Erinnerung", written 1793, first published 1794 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Ernst Frank (1847 - 1889), "Todtenopfer", op. 1 (Zehn Lieder) no. 1, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gotthard [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Erinnerung", alternate title: "Totenopfer", D 101 (1814), published 1894 [ voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

Research team for this page: Melanie Trumbull , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 70

Remembrance

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

No rosy gleam shines the day to rest!
Evening mists surge upon the shore
where, among dried-up rock grass,
the whispers of dying breezes waft.

Autumn's wind did not shake with more melancholy
through the dead grass on the sinking turf
where the ashes of my youthful beloved
slumbered under the weeping willows.

To him I will offer tears when the leaves begin to fall -
to him, when May's foliage again rustles in the grove;
until, from a fairer star, the earth
glimmers kindly in the dance of worlds.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831), "Erinnerung", written 1793, first published 1794
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 89