November evening | The November evening cools and dampens

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by Bruno Wille (1860 - 1928)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Novemberabend

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CHI ENG

Novemberabend kühlt und feuchtet.
Die Ferne stirbt in Dämmerduft.
Mit mattem Blinzeln nur durchleuchtet
Ein Stern die nebeltrübe Luft.

Gedämpfte Glockenlaute beben
Weich summend über Stoppelfeld.
Aus Wiesenniederungen heben
Sich dunkle Massen in die Welt.

Ein alter Pflüger mit dem Pferde
Zieht müde heim; die Pfeife glimmt.
Vom Schäferhund umtummelt, schwimmt
Mit Blöken dorfwärts eine Herde.

Mit qualmigdunkler Röte säumt
Der Himmel sich. Großleuchtend taucht
Der Mond empor ... Die Landschaft träumt
Von Ruhesehnsucht überhaucht.

Confirmed with Bruno Wille, Der heilige Hain. Ausgewählte Gedichte, Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1908, page 62.

Text Authorship:

by Bruno Wille (1860 - 1928), "Novemberabend", appears in Der heilige Hain, in Naturseelen [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 Arno Rentsch (1870 - 1942), "Novemberabend", op. 3 no. 3, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Naturstimmungen. Drei Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 3, Berlin, Deneke [sung text not yet checked]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "十一月傍晚", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "November evening", 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: 2013-05-31
Line count: 16
Word count: 74

November evening

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The November evening cools and dampens.
The distance dies in the scent of twilight.
With a weary blinking, only a single star
Shines through the fog-bleared air.

Muted bell-peals tremble,
Softly humming over the field of stubble.
From out of declivities in the meadow
Dark masses rise into the world.

An old ploughman with his horse
Travels wearily home; his pipe smoulders.
Bustled about by the sheepdog, a herd
Surges toward the village with bleating.

With smoky-dark redness the sky
Is rimmed.  Shining mightily
The moon rises . . . the landscape dreams,
Wafted o’er with the yearning for rest.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Bruno Wille (1860 - 1928), "Novemberabend", appears in Der heilige Hain, in Naturseelen
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This text was added to the website: 2017-11-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 100