Falls sie der Mistelzweig, und ich

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

If she had been the mistletoe

Language: English

Our translations: GER

If she had been the mistletoe
And I had been the rose,
How gay upon your table
My velvet life to close.
Since I am of the Druid,
And she is of the dew,
I'll deck tradition's buttonhole
And send the rose to you.

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [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 Gordon Getty (b. 1933), "If she had been the mistletoe" [soprano and piano], from The White Election - A Song Cycle for soprano and piano on 32 poems of Emily Dickinson, Part 1 : The Pensive Spring, no. 4. [
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GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-12
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Word count: 44

Falls sie der Mistelzweig, und ich

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Falls sie der Mistelzweig, und ich
die Ros’ gewesen wär -
auf deinem Tisch beschließen
mein samten Sein, welch Ehr.
Da ich von heil’ger Eiche,
und sie aus Tau gebor’n,
hab ich dein  Knopfloch für die Ros
als Adressat erkor’n.

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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: 2016-05-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 39