The old song | There rings in my ears

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by Emmy Destinn, née Emilie Paulina Venceslava Kittlova (1878 - 1930)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Es tönt in meinen Ohren

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

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Es tönt in meinen Ohren
Ein seltsam müder Klang,
Ein altes, kleines Liedchen,
Das meine Mutter sang.
 
Ein Königskindermärchen
Voll Sehnen und voll Licht,
Ein Lied von einer Rose,
Die im Erblühen bricht.
 
Ich seh' der Mutter Locken,
Seh' ihre bleiche Hand,
Sie trällert leis' das Liedchen,
Das ich nie recht verstand.

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• A. Foerster • R. Rössler

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Text Authorship:

by Emmy Destinn, née Emilie Paulina Venceslava Kittlova (1878 - 1930) [author's text not yet checked 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 Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "An old melody", op. 53 no. 4 (1908) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Rössler (1880 - 1962), "Das alte Lied", op. 7 no. 1, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Cessaro-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The old song", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2015-08-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 52

The old song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

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There rings in my ears
A peculiarly tired sound,
An old little song
That my mother sang.
 
A fairy tale about the children of kings
Full of longing and full of light,
A song about a rose
That perishes just as it is beginning to bloom.
 
I see my mother's curls,
See her pale hand,
She quietly lilts the little song
That I never quite understood.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Emmy Destinn, née Emilie Paulina Venceslava Kittlova (1878 - 1930)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-08-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 66