Das Reh | Oh Reh: welch Schönheit aus dem Innersten

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

La biche

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ENG GER

Ô la biche : quel bel intérieur
d'anciennes forêts dans tes yeux abonde ; 
combien de confiance ronde 
mêlée à combien de peur.

Tout cela, porté par la vive 
gracilité de tes bonds. 
Mais jamais rien n'arrive 
à cette impossessive 
ignorance de ton front.

Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "La biche", written 1924, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 57 [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 Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La biche", op. 42 no. 1 (1932), published 1966 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 1, Éd. Le Chant du Monde [sung text checked 1 time]
by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "La biche", 1939 [ mixed chorus ], from Six Chansons, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "La biche", op. 61 (Sept mélodies) no. 2 (1972), published 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Ed. Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The doe", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The Doe", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Das Reh", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Das Reh

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

Oh Reh: welch Schönheit aus dem Innersten 
uralter Wälder in deinen Augen leuchtet,
wieviel an fester Zuversicht 
gepaart mit wieviel Furcht.

All dieses ist 
in der behenden Anmut deiner Sprünge.
Doch nichts erreicht jemals 
das scheu 
Naive deiner Stirn.

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), "La biche", written 1924, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 57
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This text was added to the website: 2015-07-15
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Word count: 39