Besänftigt durch der Zeiten Trost

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Softened by Time’s consummate plush

Language: English

Our translations: GER

Softened by Time’s consummate plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood’s citadel
and undermined the years.

Bisected now, by bleaker griefs,
We envy the despair
That devastated childhood’s realm,
so easy to repair.

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Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, 1998.

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [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 James Sclater , "Softened by Time’s consummate plush", 1972 [soprano and clarinet], from Four Songs on Texts of Emily Dickinson, no. 1. [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2016-03-13
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Besänftigt durch der Zeiten Trost

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Besänftigt durch der Zeiten Trost,
wie wirkt das Leid poliert,
das einst hat Kindheits Burg bedroht
und sie unterminiert.

Zerschnitten heut von herberm Leid
beneiden wir die Not,
die uns zerstört das Kinderreich,
war sie zu lindern doch.

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2016-03-13
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Word count: 38