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Eine rote Sonne liegt In des Teiches tiefen Fluten, Ein verirrter Falter fliegt Über Schilf und Weidenruten. Alles, was mein Herz verlor, Jugendmut und Kinderfrieden, Schlummert hier im gelben Rohr, Einsam, stumm, weltabgeschieden. Wie ein breites Abendrot Liegt mein Leben und mein Leiden, Ruhig wie ein dunkles Boot Meine Träume drüber gleiten. Über meinen wilden Sinn Ist ein Frieden ausgegossen; Was ich war und was ich bin, Ist in einen Traum zerflossen.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 35.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written 1898, appears in Sommerruhe, no. 2 [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 Rudolf Brömel (b. 1877), "Eine rote Sonne liegt", published 1945-8 [ voice and piano ], from Hermann Hesse Lieder, no. 18 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hajo Kelling (1907 - 1982), "Eine rote Sonne liegt", published 1965 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Zum Frieden - Ein Zyklus auf Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Reinhold Laquai (1894 - 1957), "Eine rote Sonne liegt " [ medium voice and piano ], from Hesse-Lieder für mittlere Stimme, Heft 2, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Lavater (1885 - 1959), "Eine rote Sonne liegt ", published 1967 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gottfried Rüdinger (1886 - 1946), "Eine rote Sonne liegt", op. 30 no. 5, published 1922 [ alto and piano ], from Spätblau - Ein Liederkreis nach Hermann Hesse für eine Alt-Stimme, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Oskar Viktor Zack (1882 - 1963), "Eine rote Sonne liegt ", published 1925 [ 2-part chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Un sol rogenc rau", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A red sun rests", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 72
A red sun rests In the deep waters of the pond, A lost butterfly hovers Over reeds and trailing willow branches. Everything that my heart lost, Youth’s courage and childhood’s peace, Slumbers here in the yellow reeds, Lonely, mute, apart from this world. Like a broad red glow of evening My life and my sufferings lie, Quietly like a dark boat My dreams glide over them. Over my wild spirit A peace has been poured; What I was and what I am Has dissolved into a dream.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written 1898, appears in Sommerruhe, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2018-01-07
Line count: 16
Word count: 87