Die Sommernächte sind kurz

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by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

Translation © by Beate Binnig

The summer nights are short

Language: English

Our translations: GER

The summer nights are short
  Where northern days are long:
For hours and hours lark after lark
  Trills out his song.

The summer days are short
  Where southern nights are long:
Yet short the night when nightingales
  Trill out their song.

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Text Authorship:

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [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 George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931), "The northern days", published 1893 [ alto or baritone and piano ], note: text has been altered (changes not shown) [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "The summer nights are short", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]

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

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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-02
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Word count: 41

Die Sommernächte sind kurz

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Die Sommernächte sind kurz
wo nördliche Tage lang sind:
Stundenlang, trillert Lerche nach Lerche,
ihren Gesang.

Die Sommertage sind kurz,
wo südliche Nächte lang sind:
Doch kurz ist die Nacht, wenn 
Nachtigallen ihren Gesang trillern.

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Based on:

a text in English by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872
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This text was added to the website: 2016-05-24
Line count: 8
Word count: 35