Dein Wesen ist mir so bewusst

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

J'ai une telle conscience de ton

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: GER

J'ai une telle conscience de ton
être, rose complète,
que mon consentement te confond
avec mon cœur en fête.

Je te respire comme si tu étais,
rose, toute la vie,
et je me sens l'ami parfait
d'une telle amie.

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Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 3. Les Roses, no. 11, first published 1927 [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 Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), "La rose complète", 1993, first performed 1994 [ chorus a cappella ], from Les Chansons des Roses, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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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: 2010-01-19
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Word count: 39

Dein Wesen ist mir so bewusst

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

Dein Wesen ist mir so bewusst,
vollkomm’ne Rose,
dass mein Herze festlich
dir das Jawort gibt.

Ich saug’ dich ein, als wärest du
das ganze Leben, Rose,
und fühl in unsrer Freundschaft
mich mit dir vollendet.

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Translation of title "La rose complète" = "Die vollkommene Rose"

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Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 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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a text in French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 3. Les Roses, no. 11, first published 1927
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This text was added to the website: 2016-05-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 36