Abreise | Mein Liebling, ich muss geh'n

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Départ

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER GER

Mon amie, il faut que je parte.
Voulez-vous voir
l'endroit sur la carte ?
C'est un point noir.

En moi, si la chose
bien me réussit,
ce sera un point rose 
dans un vert pays.

Confirmed with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Saint Paul: Greywolf Press, 1986, Pages 256, 258.

Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Départ", appears in Poèmes français [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 Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Départ", op. 27 no. 5 (1950-1), published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies passagères, no. 5, Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Partença", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Thomas A. Gregg) , "Departure", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Abreise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Abreise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 34

Abreise

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Mein Liebling, ich muss geh'n.
Willst du ihn auf der Karte sehn
meinen Bestimmungsort?
Das schwarze Pünktchen dort!

Es wird in mir,
bring ich's zustand,
rosene Zier
in grünem Land.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Départ", appears in Poèmes français
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This text was added to the website: 2015-06-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 30