Half in a dream | My heart does not know how to bear the young springtime

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by Alfred Mombert (1872 - 1942)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Halb im Traum

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

   Mein Herz weiß nicht den jungen Lenz zu tragen,
der [plötzlich]¹ über Nacht
in grüner Wunderpracht
[sein Zelt sich vor dem Thore]² aufgeschlagen. 

   Mißtrauisch ist es heut hinausgegangen
und suchte halb im Traum
an jedem grünen Baum
die gelben Blätter, die vom Herbste hangen.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• A. Knab

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Confirmed with Alfred Mombert, Tag und Nacht. Gedichte, Heidelberg: Verlag von J. Hörning, 1894, page 41

¹ omitted by Knab
² Knab: "seine Zelte vor dem Tore"

Text Authorship:

by Alfred Mombert (1872 - 1942), "Halb im Traum", appears in Tag und Nacht: Gedichte [author's text checked 2 times 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 Elsa Gregory (fl. 1900-20), "Halb im Traum" [voice and piano], from Fünf Gesänge, no. 4. [ sung text not verified ]
by Armin Knab (1881 - 1951), "Halb im Traum", op. 6 no. 2, published <<1925 [voice and piano], from Mombert-Lieder, no. 3. [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , title 1: "Half in a dream", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 47

Half in a dream

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

   My heart does not know how to bear the young springtime,
which [suddenly]¹ overnight,
in wondrous green splendour,
has pitched its [tent]² before the gate.

   [My heart] went out today, suspiciously,
and, half in a dream, it sought
upon every green tree
the yellow leaves that have hung there since autumn.

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¹ omitted by Knab
² Knab: "tents"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Alfred Mombert (1872 - 1942), "Halb im Traum", appears in Tag und Nacht: Gedichte
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This text was added to the website: 2017-05-15
Line count: 8
Word count: 54