Guten Morgen - Mitternacht

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Good Morning ‑‑ Midnight

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

Good Morning -- Midnight --
I'm coming Home --
Day -- got tired of Me --
How could I -- of Him?

Sunshine was a sweet place --
I liked to stay --
But Morn -- didn't want me -- now --
So -- Goodnight -- Day!

I can look -- can't I --
When the East is Red?
The Hills -- have a way -- then --
That puts the Heart -- abroad --

You -- are not so fair -- Midnight --
I chose -- Day --
But -- please take a little Girl --
He turned away!

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1929 [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 John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Good Morning -- Midnight", 1968, published 1978 [ soprano and piano ], from Six Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 1, Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., New York and Peer Musikverlag GMbH, Hamburg [sung text not yet checked]
by André Previn (1929 - 2019), "Good Morning -- Midnight", 1999, first performed 1999 [ soprano and piano ], from Three Dickinson Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2004-05-30
Line count: 16
Word count: 73

Guten Morgen ‑ Mitternacht

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Guten Morgen - Mitternacht
ich kehr zurück nach Haus -
der Tag - ward meiner leid -
wie käm ich ohne ihn aus?

Im warmen Sonnenlicht
hat das Herz mir gelacht -
doch die Früh wollt’ mich nicht -
so - Tag, - gute Nacht!

Ich darf doch das Rot
im Osten noch sehn?
Die Höh’n lassen mir 
dann das Herz aufgehn.

Mitternacht - bist nicht so schön -
den Tag ich erkies -
doch nimm ein junges Ding,
das dieser abwies!

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Based on:

a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Further poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1929
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This text was added to the website: 2017-05-21
Line count: 16
Word count: 71