by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
Song of death
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
Sing the song of death, O sing it! for without the song of death, the song of life becomes pointless and silly. Sing then the song of death, and the longest journey, and what the soul takes with him, and what he leaves behind, and how he enters fold after fold of deepening darkness for the cosmos even in death is like a dark whorled shell whose whorls fold round to the core of soundless silence and pivotal oblivion where the soul comes at last, and has utter peace. Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. Sing the song of death, O sing it!
Authorship:
- by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885 - 1930), "Song of Death" [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 Becky Llewellyn (b. 1950), "Song of death", 1990 [low voice and viola], from Last poems : three songs on death and dying, no. 1. [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Lied vom Tod", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2016-11-08
Line count: 13
Word count: 116