Recalcitrant curls | My maiden has two curly locks

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by Michael Albert (1836 - 1893)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Spröde Locken

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Mein Mädchen hat zwei Locken kraus,
Zwei Locken, denen ich zürne;
Sie springen aus dem Hut heraus
Gar trotzig über der Stirne.
 
Sie wollen sich dem Kamme nicht
Und keinem Streicheln fügen.
[Obgleich]¹ sich sonst die Haare schlicht
Und weich ans Köpfchen schmiegen.
 
So ist auch ihr Gemüthe weich
Und ohne spröden Willen;
Doch hat sie, den kleinen Locken gleich,
Verzweifelt krause Grillen.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• B. Bock

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Confirmed with Joseph W. Flitsch, "Zwei siebenbürgisch-sächsische Dichter" in: Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung, Nr. 15, 12. April 1894, page 232.

¹ Bock: "Obschon"

Text Authorship:

by Michael Albert (1836 - 1893), "Spröde Locken" [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 Berta Bock (1857 - 1945), "Spröde Locken", op. 6 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published c1900 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Fritz Schuberth Jr. [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Recalcitrant curls", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2016-09-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 64

Recalcitrant curls

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

My maiden has two curly locks,
Two curls at which I am angry;
They leap forth from under her hat
Quite truculently across her brow.
 
They will not submit to the comb
Nor to any caressing.
Even though her hair otherwise lies smoothly
And softly against her little head.
 
Thus is her nature soft as well
And without a defiant will;
But, like those curls, she has
Hopelessly wayward little fancies.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Michael Albert (1836 - 1893), "Spröde Locken"
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This text was added to the website: 2016-09-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 71