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by Anders Österling (1884 - 1981)

Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Tala, älskade, tala

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: ENG FIN

Tala, älskade, tala,
orden göra mig väl!
Svalkande känner jag dala
majregn över min själ.

Ej jag vågar beröra
tinningens blonda svall.
Blundande tyst vill jag höra,
allt vad du tala skall.

Tveksamt läpparna bäva,
orden kommer så matt,
men liksom strålar de sväva
in i min döda natt.

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Text Authorship:

by Anders Österling (1884 - 1981), "Bön" [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 Hugo Alfvén (1872 - 1960), "Bön", op. 22 (Tre Österling-sånger) no. 1 (1905) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Tala, älskade, tala", op. 40 no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustaf Nordqvist (1886 - 1949), "Bön", 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Lyrik : sju sånger, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Anna Hersey) , "Plea", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Anna Hersey

This text was added to the website: 2011-08-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 49

Puhu, Rakas, puhu

Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Puhu, Rakas, puhu,
sanasi tekevät minulle hyvää!
Tunnen virvoittuvani,
on kuin kevätsade valuisi sieluuni.

En minä uskalla koskettaa
vaaleita suortuvia ohimoillasi.
Hiljaa tahdon kuulla
kaiken, mitä aiot sanoa.

Epäröiden vapisevat huulet,
sanat tulevat niin hentoina,
mutta valonsäteiden lailla ne leijuvat
keskelle kuollutta yötäni.

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Translation of title "Bön" = "Rukous"

Text Authorship:

Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2016 by Erkki Pullinen, (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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Based on:

a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Anders Österling (1884 - 1981), "Bön"
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This text was added to the website: 2016-10-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 43