Voices in the tide | Loving lamenting hesitant beings ·

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by Stefan George (1868 - 1933)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Stimmen im Strom

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Liebende klagende zagende wesen
Nehmt eure zuflucht in unser bereich ·
Werdet geniessen und werdet genesen ·
Arme und worte umwinden euch weich.

Leiber wie muscheln · korallene lippen
Schwimmen und tönen in schwankem palast ·
Haare verschlungen in ästige klippen
Nahend und wieder vom strudel erfasst.

Bläuliche lampen die halb nur erhellen ·
Schwebende säulen auf kreisendem schuh --
Geigend erzitternde ziehende wellen
Schaukeln in selig beschauliche ruh.

Müdet euch aber das sinnen das singen ·
Fliessender freuden bedächtiger lauf ·
Trifft euch ein kuss: und ihr löst euch in ringen
Gleitet als wogen hinab und hinauf.

Confirmed with Stefan George, Werke. Ausgabe in Zwei Bänden, Erster Band, 4. Auflage, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984, page 115

Text Authorship:

by Stefan George (1868 - 1933), "Stimmen im Strom", appears in Das Buch der hängenden Gärten [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 Harald Genzmer (1909 - 2007), "Stimmen im Strom", GeWV 74 no. 3 (1941), published 1976 [ soprano and piano ], from Liederbuch, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Stimmen im Strom", op. 77 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 6 [ women's chorus a cappella (op. 77a) or with piano (op. 77b) ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Voices in the tide", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-04-22
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Word count: 97

Voices in the tide

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Loving lamenting hesitant beings ·
Take your refuge in our realm ·
You shall enjoy and shall grow well  ·
Arms and words softly entwine you.

Bodies like shells · coral-like lips
Swim and resound in the swaying palace ·
Hair knotted in branchy crags
Approaching and then recaptured by the eddies.

Bluish lamps that only half illumine ·
Hovering pillars upon a circling foot --
Fiddling trembling pulling waves
Rock [themselves] into blissfully contemplative rest.

But if you are wearied by the contemplation the singing ·
Of the measured flow of streaming joys ·
Then a kiss falls upon you: and you free yourselves in the form of rings
Glide as waves upward and downward.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Stefan George (1868 - 1933), "Stimmen im Strom", appears in Das Buch der hängenden Gärten
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This text was added to the website: 2017-08-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 115