Attention! Some of this material is not in the public domain.
It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator.
To inquire about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at
If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation.
Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material.
Now shall the long homesickness have an end Upon your heart, which is a part of all The past no human creature may recall Save you, who are persuasive to unbend The brows of death, and name him for a friend: This ecstasy is supernatural; I have survived to see the heavens fall Into my hands, which on your hands depend. Time has prepared us an enduring bed Within the earth of this beloved land; And, lying side by side and hand in hand, We sleep coeval with the happy dead Who are ourselves, a little earlier bound To one another's bosom in the ground.
Confirmed with Selected Works of Elinor Wylie, ed. by Evelyn Helmich Hively, Kent State University Press, Kent (Ohio), 2005, page 93.
Authorship
- by Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1928), "One person", appears in Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets, first published 1928 [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 Marvin David Levy (b. 1932), "One person", published 1967 [medium voice and piano or orchestra], also set in German [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Ein Mensch", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2015-09-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 105
Nun soll an deiner Brust das lange Heimweh sich beenden, das Teil all dessen ist, was längst vergangen und woran kein Mensch sich wohl entsinnt, nur du, der du es schaffst, des Todes finst’re Stirn zu glätten und ihn Freund zu nennen: Diese Verzückung, sie ist wundersam; ich durfte es erleben, wie es ist, wenn mir der Himmel in die Arme fällt und dies in deinen Händen liegt. Die Zeit hat uns ein dauerhaftes Bett bereitet im Erdreich dieses lieb geword’nen Lands; wir liegen Seit’ an Seite, Hand in Hand und ruhen zeitgleich mit den frohen Toten, die wir selbst, ein wenig früher fest verbunden Herz an Herz im Erdenschoß.
Authorship
- Translation from English 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.
Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
If you wish to commission a new translation, please contact:
- a text in English by Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1928), "One person", appears in Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets, first published 1928
This text was added to the website: 2015-09-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 110